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Does the left exhibit moral nihilism?

Does the left exhibit moral nihilism?

  • Im a left leaning American, yes.

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  • Im not American, yes.

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  • Im not American, no.

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Morality is a constant topic in politics. All sides seek to appear moral to an extent (for votes) but politics and reality aren't often the same.
Word games, moral equivocation, speech policing, a lack of objectivism are all factors here.

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Does the left exhibit moral nihilism?
 
What brought up the idea for this post was a clip I viewed today. Molyneux (an atheist libertarian) makes some great points.
 
These ridiculous partisan polls are getting rather annoying. Surely you can find something more meaningful to talk about...
 
i think there are plenty of liberals who believe in good and evil; i'd say that belief system is more appropriately labeled "moral relativism"

some times its okay to raise taxes, other times not, depends on the context.

not unique to liberals though in my opinion
 
I am going to go out on a limb and say "no". It is not going out on much of a limb since the truth is that the premise is painfully stupid and has no basis in any form of reality. Just a bit of advice: you should probably spend some time promoting what you actually stand for, instead of trying to attack groups you are against. Harder, takes more moral courage, but more effective by far.
 
THE LEFT IS THE WORST! THEY SUCK! OH YEA AND DONT GET ME STARTED ABOUT THAT OBAMA! HE SUCKS TOO!


We get it. Anyone to the left of you is the worst thing ever.
 
... adherence to any political ideology usually constitutes nihilism in some degree or another. In the most elevated terms, you've made an arbitrary and pointless choice to pit Yin against Yang.
 
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... adherence to any political ideology usually constitutes nihilism in some degree or another. In the most elevated terms, you've made an arbitrary and pointless choice to pit Yin against Yang.

I do not think most people "adhere" to an ideology, only that one described their basic thought processes.
 
I do not think most people "adhere" to an ideology, only that one described their basic thought processes.

I agree. A political ideology/philosophy is really impossible to follow 100% of the time.
 
No. Even most self-proclaimed "nihilists" do not exhibit nihilism.

Nihilism =/= hedonism
 
Morality is a constant topic in politics. All sides seek to appear moral to an extent (for votes) but politics and reality aren't often the same.
Word games, moral equivocation, speech policing, a lack of objectivism are all factors here.

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Moral nihilism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Does the left exhibit moral nihilism?

Do neo-cons exhibit moral nihilism when they criticize obama for not starting enough wars as it is?
 
I do not think most people "adhere" to an ideology, only that one described their basic thought processes.

Nihilism is a term that has a lot of denotations because it has been over used. Describing an intentional state, it is basically a quasi-mystical way of describing cognitive dissonance.

The dissonance at work in America is that you have two political parties which persistent polled majorities apparently don't like or believe represent them or their interests. Yet somehow these same majorities work out in their heads that the best way going forward is to vote for one of the because, " lesser of two evils, blah, blah, blah."

Which in and of itself isn't nihilism -- just political disengagement. The problem is, they get whipped in a "home team" frenzy that entails getting engaged with politics passionately but through a series of artificial rituals (voting, donations, talking up your side and talking down the opposition) that will never amount to a policy change reflecting any person's perceptions of what America can be to any meaningful degree. That's the essence of nihilism as an intentional state, when the manner in which a person is acting on their intentions does not agree with nature of those intentions. Common parlance would call it 'hypocrisy'.

The Democrats and Republicans have the track records they do and the two party system being what there is, there is no way the average man could go to the bat for or against either of them without being a nihilist.
 
Yeah thats an especially unbiased title there isn't it? :roll:

Molyneux is an outspoken libertarian, did you watch the video?
It's the fact that big neo cons like McCain criticized obama for lack of boots on the ground in Iraq.

No I'll watch it and let you know
 
I don't think anyone who isn't actually insane literally has no preference for one action over another. That would mean that such a person would just as easily eat a tuna sandwich as they would light themselves and four other people on fire. I don't think that a functioning human brain is capable of doing that.
 
Yeah thats an especially unbiased title there isn't it? :roll:

Molyneux is an outspoken libertarian, did you watch the video?
It's too long for me too watch but yes I'd much rather live in a nation that allows freedom of religion then a central planned economy or a statist society. I do however know that religion has been used to create governmental power throughout history so we need to be careful of it breaching politics. Have we ever had an agnostic president or speaker of the house?
 
It's too long for me too watch but yes I'd much rather live in a nation that allows freedom of religion then a central planned economy or a statist society. I do however know that religion has been used to create governmental power throughout history so we need to be careful of it breaching politics. Have we ever had an agnostic president or speaker of the house?

Thanks for not watching. :roll:
 
That descriptions of Metaphysical Nihilism made me laugh my ass off.

Yeah - that so totally defines a political party. :roll::roll:
 
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