Consider the scenario where one individual aggressively declares that another individual is unattractive. Naturally the person insulted may become upset. This is absurd for two reasons. Foremost, the first individual is bringing the insult about as a biological desire which resulted from neurological operations. There is no soul to blame, therefore to take offense is synonymous with taking offense to the rock for falling. Alternatively, one may permit the insult to be measured in two components which necessarily compose the reasoning behind the insult. It is possible that the first individual truly does believe that the second is unattractive. In this case the first individual speaks simply their subjective truth and so the second individual need only view the remark as a piece of subjective information which the first individual cannot control. The second component of the insult would be that which is facilitated specifically to cause insult and contains no subjective truth to the first individual; in this case there is no reason to take offense for the first individual is simply lying to achieve their biological goals which is as absurd as blaming that same rock.
What a wonderful thing this grants the nihilist over the moralist. A nihilist is not angry and has no grounds to respond irrationally to insult or be saddened by the petty (or serious, for that matter) remarks of another human.
Surely nihilism is happiness?
Tags: anger, bad vibe, insult, materialism, nihilism, Philosophy
