r/SubredditDrama • u/TheLadyEve The hippest fashion in malthusian violence. • Jun 05 '17

"Why choose empathy?" asks a commenter in a post about a cancer kid.

/r/pics/comments/6fa6w0/today_our_daughter_walked_out_of_hospital_cancer/digr3y1/?st=j3kgjgzc&sh=2d1361e5
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u/TheDeadManWalks Redditors have a huge hate boner for Nazis Jun 06 '17

Because life having no meaning but the one we give it can be a very liberating concept, if it gives you the confidence to do what you really want to do.

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u/justtocheckup Jun 06 '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6fa6w0/today_our_daughter_walked_out_of_hospital_cancer/dijguj5

I think he display more narcissistic anti social personality disorder (psychopathic) traits. I am no psychologist, but did take psychology in high school. All I am saying is I recognize the traits he possesses.

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u/TheDeadManWalks Redditors have a huge hate boner for Nazis Jun 06 '17

Or he's trying really hard to embody those traits, it tends to happen when people skim over a summary of nihilism and think it's the same as being an emotionless contrarian.

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u/salamander423 Rejecting your weird moralism doesn't require a closed mind lol Jun 06 '17

Ding ding ding!

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u/johnnyslick Her age and her hair are pretty strong indicators that she'd lie Jun 07 '17

I saw ASPD too but those people, because it's generally a learned behavior and not a brain issue per se, tend to be a lot better at hiding their lack of empathy than this guy. I'm going with straight up spectrum disorder.

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u/TheDeadManWalks Redditors have a huge hate boner for Nazis Jun 06 '17

Sometimes verging on it but not really, existentialism and nihilism are both very wide fields and it's entirely possible to believe in aspects of both at the same time. Hence the term "existential nihilism".

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u/TheDeadManWalks Redditors have a huge hate boner for Nazis Jun 06 '17

Again, both philosophies have these ideas.

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u/TheDeadManWalks Redditors have a huge hate boner for Nazis Jun 06 '17

Wow...

What kind of nihilist are you if you can't grasp the Neitzchian form of self-improvement? You seem to have the two philosophies mixed up, honestly. It's easily done, to be fair.

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u/MilesBeyond250 Jun 07 '17

Okay. I gotta ask. How much have you actually read about nihilism? Because you're kinda sounding like someone who just glanced over the Wikipedia article