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Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th... by jp555 on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:16AM (#16257286)
Humans focus on what they look at, compounding into a perspective, belief, and actions.

You can’t work to think nothing is of any consequence and simultaneously work to build anything of value (family, friendships, business, intellect, etc). Nihilism is the abolishment of value systems. Nothing matters. Building things of value requires a system to evaluate value.

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Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th... by mykull on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:36AM (#16257703)
No, nihilism is the denial of any intrinsic value, we are still all free to make up and agree on our own values if we want, but it would be because we decided to, as untethered things in a meaningless expanse.
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Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th... by jp555 on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:12PM (#16267447)
Ah I see so deciding, as in to act as though something is intrinsically true. Is it just me that these things so often seem like arguing about semantics? Or are we talking more about weight (extrinsic) vs. mass (intrinsic)?
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