Nihilistic Murderer

[CapnAwesome]

I also think the idea that Nihilism is going to make someone behave poorly or go on killing sprees is factually false. Elsewise we would see more people like the person in the video expressing those viewpoints. In fact that's the first murderer I've seen who's ever expressed them. Most murderers seem to be both Theistic and have some sort of rationale for why they've killed someone. That's the first person I've seen who totally lacked to even attempt a rationale for his actions.

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[quote='CapnAwesome' pid='892317' dateline='1425661136']I don't really know how Nihilism is ill-defined. It seems to have a pretty clear definition to me. I think that problem is that people often times equate Nihilism with poor morals or with depression or hopelessness or something. In reality none of that has anything to do with nihilism. Nihilism is just that things don't really matter.

Here is its definition:

Definition of nihilism in English:
noun

1 The rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless........etc etc

I don't think that one line dictionary definitions are very useful in general. Let me turn this conversation around a little. I'd like to know where you think your morals principles come from and also why you don't go out and kill people? Also if you believed that individual morality didn't matter, would you go out and kill people?

Edit: Also no problem on the edits! I'm pretty guilty of that myself, especially when I'm trying to add clarity to what I'm saying. I think that life is meaningless is incomplete. Everything is meaningless is probably more accurate. So that doesn't mean that as an individual I hold no morals. Just that the morals I do hold are meaningless.