What I meant when I called myself a nihilist was essentially that there was no such thing as an objective, mind-independent morality. Nothing more. I would still consider myself a nihilist in that sense (and I expect most on this site would), but I don’t call myself that because it could cause confusion.
Can you explain how the statement ‘A world in which everyone but me does not murder is preferable to a world in which everyone including me does not murder’ is a misinterpretation of this quotation?
It isn’t, although that doesn’t mean I would necessarily murder in such a world.
EDIT: Well, my nihilism was also a justification for the belief that it’s silly to care about morality, and in that sense at least I’m no longer a nihilist in the sense that I was. That was just one aspect of my ‘my eccentricities make me superior, everyone else’s eccentricities are silly’ phase, which I think I moved beyond around the time I stopped being a teenager.
What I meant when I called myself a nihilist was essentially that there was no such thing as an objective, mind-independent morality. Nothing more. I would still consider myself a nihilist in that sense (and I expect most on this site would), but I don’t call myself that because it could cause confusion.
What bullet is that? I implicitly agreed that murder is wrong (as per the way I use the word ‘wrong’) when I said that your statement wasn’t a misinterpretation. It’s just that as I mentioned before, I don’t care a whole lot about the thing that I call ‘morality’.
What I meant when I called myself a nihilist was essentially that there was no such thing as an objective, mind-independent morality. Nothing more. I would still consider myself a nihilist in that sense (and I expect most on this site would), but I don’t call myself that because it could cause confusion.
It isn’t, although that doesn’t mean I would necessarily murder in such a world.
EDIT: Well, my nihilism was also a justification for the belief that it’s silly to care about morality, and in that sense at least I’m no longer a nihilist in the sense that I was. That was just one aspect of my ‘my eccentricities make me superior, everyone else’s eccentricities are silly’ phase, which I think I moved beyond around the time I stopped being a teenager.
I agree that morality is not in the quarks.
That doesn’t seem like a huge bullet to bite?
What bullet is that? I implicitly agreed that murder is wrong (as per the way I use the word ‘wrong’) when I said that your statement wasn’t a misinterpretation. It’s just that as I mentioned before, I don’t care a whole lot about the thing that I call ‘morality’.