If I Were a Nihilist...

I think life would be easier. For me anyway.

Nihilism: An extreme form of skepticism; the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.

This truth of which nihilism rejects is specifically moral truth. The nihilist will say there is no morality because there is no moral knowledge. There is no moral knowledge because there are no moral facts. There are no moral facts because there are no feature of which are right or wrong. What I mean is that torturing puppies is not wrong (according to the nihilist). Why isn't it wrong? Because there is no feature of it that is the wrongness of torturing puppies. It is also not right to torture puppies. It simply is.

I am not, by any means, a nihilist. Nor will I ever be. I know several people who are. And they will tell you they are. Personally, I think it is a philosophy for those in denial of rather evident truth. However, I do think life would be easier for me. Why wouldn't you just live for yourself, doing whatever your flesh desired? If I were a nihilist, I could cheat on my wife, have an affair with another woman, and there would be absolutely nothing wrong with my actions. Kelsie would be displeased, of course. Maybe even leave me. However, she wouldn't have a reason to be displeased. Because I have done nothing wrong. There is no feature of adultery that is its wrongness. Same with lying. I made a vow to be faithful when we were married, which I would not have kept. But there is no feature of that lie which is its own wrongness. By the nihilists reasoning and skepticism nothing can be deemed wrong.

There is a part of me that is nihilistic in nature. That is my flesh. It is a constant struggle to remind my heart of the objective truth I know to be true, even though my flesh continues its assault of deception.