Okay, sure. If 'a "thinking about ___ more is fruitless" approach' is pessimism then sure. Nihilism doesn't necessarily denote that.
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i do wanna know which nihilism is the bad one because there are so many
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i mean, there's the "ethical values are choices not inherent" one which seems just basic sense to me
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I think there are convergent values, which is what ethical philosophy talks about.
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Yeah, but transcendent?
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that term is so loaded and wildly defined I can't respond without clarity re intent
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Values may converge, but that only implies intersubjectivity and not that morality exists, i.e. that there are objective values.
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Sure, empirical proof of values converging wouldn't be proof of objective values.
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sure, that'd just be your common or garden variety is-ought confusion
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my bridging of is-ought is far more advanced https://humaniterations.net/2016/05/16/the-orthogonality-thesis-ontological-crises/ … (albeit unoriginal)
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not seeing how you performed that in that piece, maybe i'm just missing it
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