And I really don't care. Nihilism isn't the end, its a doorway to existentialism. Once you stop looking for nonexistent objective meaning and greater forces directing life, you can start making your own meaning.
At the beginning, it creates anguish, angst, grief, but over time it becomes a strength. If there's no purpose or meaning, it logically follows that there's also no purpose or meaning in self harm. There's nothing after death, no ultimate goal, so why seek an end that will find you anyway? Why participate in society, or why NOT participate in society? When there's no one and nothing determining what you should do, you can do whatever you want. Live, die, vote, make art, smoke, eat organic, drive cars, ride bikes, guzzle high fructose corn syrup, read books, play online, it's up to you.
The one thing is that even though life itself has no ultimate, objective meaning, you're born into a society with rules and social standards -- human built 'meaning'. You have the freedom to ignore this constructed system or work to change it, but ultimately you aren't allowed to be surprised when a system you already knew was in place punishes you for actively acting against it. Nihilist/existentialists are just as subject to the Social Contract as everyone else.
Read other answers by Anath Sheridan on Quora:
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