(March 10, 2015 at 1:00 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 10, 2015 at 11:12 am)Cato Wrote: If ethical nihilism necessarily followed, the ensuing free for all would have consumed our species...notice that anyone that truly practiced ethical nihilism quickly winds up in jail or dead.That's a bit of a red herring. One can easily believe that their is no universal basis for determining right or wrong and still conform to societal norms and conventions.
(March 10, 2015 at 11:44 am)wiploc Wrote: Theists like to think their morality comes from gods...they assume that, without gods, they would be without morality.I don't believe that. I say that God provides the conscience by which all people, believers and atheists alike, identify right and wrong.
"practiced" Chad, "practiced". If a nihilist is conforming to societal norms he/she is not practicing nihilism.