They want to convince you that morality is subjective and life is meaningless so you remain servile cattle and do nothing when they break laws and get away with grooming children, but they also don't want you to use their nihilism to run them over with your car, shoot up a school or be a an annoyance in the society that sustains them
>>18449325Who exactly do you think is sitting in their office going "muahahahahaha! Next, I will pay Kurzgesagt to make a video on safe nihilism! This will manipulate the masses in a way that benefits me personally!"and why is this on the history board?
>>18449325That youtube channel is funded by Bill Gates and some NGO's (IIRC)Someone exposed him in a video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI
>>18449328Lmao, you litterally posted that as i was waiting for post cooldown on >>18449333
>>18449328There's no specific person. Religion shrinks not because of a true ideological devotion to atheism or any new atheist worldview, but because atheism is convenient. It is convenient for the man fucking another man. It is convenient for the sexual fetishist dressing himself as a woman. It is convenient for the woman killing her child in the womb. It is convenient for the prostitute about to die of AIDS. It is convenient for the politician setting a school on fire. Fuck, it is even convenient for the priest grooming children. It provides a cheap way out, it helps you say "its okay because morality is a social construct". And little by little, without an anchor, without a line that is written and unbreakable, we become animals, and the world we live in hell. A society that is perfectly efficient at being, at removing all the guilt and friction from doing anything, is not a society worth living in. "Who cares?" You'll say. "We're all animals anyways". And to that i tell you, i dont want to be an animal.
>>18449325They did a terrible job then.Now I’m a hardcore Stalinist that argues that since morality is subjective then the “atrocities” perpetrated by the Bolsheviks and Soviets like holding mock trials and sending people to gulags were actually good things since the victims were all bourgeois scum, imperialists, kulaks, foreign spies, counter revolutionaries and common criminals so they deserved it.Oops.
>>18449325What they are calling "optimistic nihilism" is just a new, fancy name of Camus Absurdism.They will come up with the same idea over and over, inventing the wheel any generation.
>>18449340>without a line that is written and unbreakable"Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven"https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A31&version=ESV>>18449344Your argument doesn't support the idea of a deity or the existence of an objective moral standard. You merely try to show that it would be useful for you if an objective moral exists.That doesn't allow us to infer the existence of an objective ethic. If it did, then conclusions like the following would be justified:P1 The existence of a cure for any illness would be usefulC A cure for any illness must exist.You see? Human desires are not been meet by the existing universe. You cannot reasonable excapt that this would be no issue with moral.
>>18449353Sin remains sin, regardless of repentance
>>18449355Witch hunt, killing of natives, religious wars etc.Religion is no magical warrenty for moral. It may be true that a society that believes in religion or a objective moral standard is a better one than a subjectivists but...As far as truth is concerned and it is established as a moral good, we need to accapt that there will be critique.
>>18449325They all believe morality is objective, though. Their morality just happens to be a form of liberalism, You don't know what moral/ethical subjectivism is.> do nothing when they break lawsThis was already happening long before you could be an atheist in public without getting imprisoned or ostracized.>grooming children"Child grooming" was invented by liberals (like 'they') and only really became a concept during your parent's lifetime. Marrying and having sex with children was completely legal in many U.S states and not objected to by any churches. Dislike of pedophilia as currently understood is an unnervingly recent phenomenon.>but they also don't want you to use their nihilism to run them over with your car, shoot up a school or be a an annoyance in the society that sustains themThat's not even what Nihilism is.>>18449333Bill Gates has ethical, philosophical, and practical beliefs. I don't think you can necesssarily interpret all his actions as him trying to further wanting to have sex with children or whatever. (Which btw, he could achieve in much more efficient ways, like say, the """children's liberation"""" movement of the 70's that wished to legalize intercourse with minors).>>18449340I don't know. I don't believe very much has changed in that regard. Slavery, war, and Genocide were rampant then and slavery, war, and genocide are rampant now.
