Nihilist do not have morals, but it doesn't mean they steal, rape, kill, and so on.
As a nihilist, i know that i am currently a human, as a human according to my design and how i perceive or remember other humans to behave, and observing the accomplishments humanity has achieved, i know there are several principle functions of the human personality that increase our chances of survival.
Humans live in communes:
Humans have complex social structures, we have elite group leaders, usually the strongest, oldest, and or smartest, usually the smartest. Furthermore, mothers rear their young for the longest period of time for a longer period of time than any other animal on the earth until they are capable of joining other troops or living independently, not just because of laws or anything, the least sophisticated government systems in the world, bush/jungle tribes, are known to keep children within the family longer than any other animal on earth, usually longer for females.
Besides that, humans are known for expecting the entire commune, not just the family, to assist in rearing the child. This kind of social system is seen in gorillas, as well as aboriginals, many native american tribes, and infamously in italians. LOL.
Humans have the ability to talk and communicate in a written language. This suggests that the spoken/written word allows us to communicate ideas to other people, more often than not for purposes of survival, example:
How does the child know whether it should stay perfectly still or climb a tree when the troop sees a lion coming? they differentiate climbing trees and playing statue as two separate ideas. This effectually allows us to survive, since we no longer regard lions are a common threat, we are able to articulate other ideas with word like whether we came from a six day project or a six hundred billion year project.
Humans hunt together. Our large brains allow us to strategize how to stalk an elephant for several days and eventually stand directly beneath it without it knowing our presence. Since we no longer need to bring down elephants to eat or get bones from, we instead play football and perform ballet.
There are a myriad of other inherent behaviors in humans that I wont get in to, but the ones I mentioned show that our intended designs and the function of our brain are all the "morals" we will ever need. They are strikingly similar to religious morals. We shouldn't kill one another over petty things and only in the name of self preservation or the survival of the commune, if we kill over petty things we will be exiled from the commune forced to live on our own, severely reducing our chances of survival.
We do not rape, simply because if we rape, we are seen as unsafe and socially unpleasant and ultimately brought down severely on the social pecking order or abolished from the commune for certain death further inhibiting our ability to pass on our genes.
We do not steal, rather we share. Sharing is how humans came to survive near extinction in the evolutionist view. We share with the children, because we want our children to grow up with other children and increase their likely hood of survival, we share with one another to strengthen social bonds and form friendships or even love relationships in order for us to experience a mutual level of contentment. We don't steal because it creates a lack of trust within the commune that ultimately effects everyone, if caught stealing we will most likely have violent confrontation or risk being exiled from the troop to certain death.
None of my behaviors as a social rational safe friendly and trustworthy human being are religious or scientific. I am merely trying to survive.
Morals in any sense are a bad thing. Morals means that if you are in this religion then your morals are right and any opposing morals are wrong. Morals ultimately create confrontation. Cloning, stem cell research, abortion, legalized marijuana, rock and roll, are all person to person circumstance to circumstance situations in which morals or survival can legitimize depending on the circumstances and the person. However, morals are finite and difficult to say well she’s only fourteen, she was raped, she has a mother who didn’t graduate high school working as a waitress in a diner, no father, no older siblings, three other younger siblings, and lives inthat’s righta trailer park which is no environment for a child with a teenage mother to grow up in to. It becomes very difficult to justify the most minor incidents when it comes to morals like masturbation or even sexual fantasies. One reason why I am a nihilist.
Morals and survival aside, I believe in a person named Jesus Christ. I believe her performed miracles and inspired many people to change their lives for the better, many times averting them from near death. In any right, making someone quite using heroin on belief alone is a miracle in itself. I can say that faith in the possibility that someone like Jesus is possible is enough to help me overlook all the horrors of the world like HIV, world hunger, the hole in the o-zone, mass extinction, encroachment on rainforests, terrorism, OJ Simpson, Anna Nichole Smith, the Olsen twins, reality shows, the daily threat of nuclear annihilation, and last but not least racism.
Nihilism is the answer, and it's not what you think...
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