MORALITY

This part assumes you have read the nihilism and existence page.


The biggest lie in human history

It's only a logical consequence that, if human life and existence have no meaning, purpose, worth or value, that everything that we have sofar defined as "meaningful", "purposeful", "worthy" or "valuable" no longer has any meaning or value as we know it. The reasons why we live, the way we live, the way we die, the ways we pass the time, the things we find important and qualitative in life are no longer holding any more meaning or relevance.
There is no reason to give any value to a certain pastime activity, to give meaning to a certain gesture or act or behaviour towards other people, to give purpose to yourself or a certain organization, religion or group, or to define certain types of people or groups as "worthy". Neither of these will change your insignificance, neither will make you more important here, neither will make you stand out.

There is no way to be "better", more purposeful or meaningful than other human beings. We are all equally mortal, equally disposable and equally invaluable. This also means there is no way to judge other people, to define what they are worth to us or others, there is no way to look up at or down on people.

However, there is nothing we love to do more than to define, search, obtain, improve and prove our superiority towards others. Using all the schemes - religion, sociological categories, jobs, economy, intelligence, interests, morals, values,... - we have used for so long to avoid looking at our futility in this world and to give ourselves some meaning, we took the liberty to use those to define other people's futility and their meaning in comparison to us.

We have, firstly, been able to fool ourselves into believing that we have something to do and to prove here, that there is a certain value laid out before us, and that we should continuously try to perfect that self-acclaimed value, so that we know we've led a "good" life and achieved something.

Second, we've achieved to compare ourselves to each other, so we can improve that value even more! If my neighbour is "good", I"ll have to be "better", because that way, I'll have led a "better" and not just a "good" life! It's brilliant!! With just a single way of circular reasoning we've managed to keep ourselves busy for millenia!!!

Allright, sometimes we murder certain people or certain groups of people (Ethnical cleansing, anyone? Now available on every continent! If interested, please address your local government official!) because they fail to see our way is better, but that's the price to pay for civilization, right?
Granted, a large percentage of micro-, meso- and macro-sized disputes between humans and human organizations are caused by differences in values, and the inability for us to be able to raise reason and understanding for the presence of other-thinking and other-seeing humans and human organizations, occasionally leading to fights among friends, disrupted families, clashes between certain organizations, large scale frustrations and anger towards certain social groups, and even small ànd large scale wars; all in which people often get emotionally ànd physically wounded, hurt, mutilated or even killed.
But hey, we'll take it, as long as we don't have to accept that we're just animals like all the other critters aimlessly scurrying about the soil for food, sex and happiness. Just a tad more murderous, perhaps, but still.

What I'm sarcastically trying to say, is that we've raised the stakes of the risk of having to deal with the fact that there is no worth or meaning to be given to life. It has taken insane proportions and we are constantly feeding this massive lie, blind to see what it is doing to us.

It has become the biggest lie in human history. It has been told and indoctrinated for so long, that we actually believe it all.

But telling a lie a million times does not change the fact that it's still a lie.


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This means that some aspects that are defining for our daily life need to be revised.

Good and bad, right and wrong:

There is no good or bad, there is no right or wrong. The things we do or believe in hold no value or meaning, so their worth and righteousness cannot be compared to each other, since there isn't any.
E.g., it is not good or bad to buy a cheap eastern-european second hand car that is about to explode horribly any moment, or to buy a massively expensive german tank car.
Music can not be good or bad, a color can not be good or bad, different types of clothing can not be better or worse; you can only have a subjective opinion about it whether you like it or not.
It's no more right or wrong to spend your life doing this or that, neither can be better or worse. 

There is no right or wrong, no good or bad. Again, there is only choice, and consequence.
You decide what to do with your life and how to spend it, no one can judge you in what you do, just like you can't decide whether someone else's choice is better or worse.
The condition is, that you are prepared and able to live with the consequences of your choice.

If you buy the eastern-european car, take emergency preparations and bring a cell-phone with the fire department on speed-dial.
If you buy the german car, be prepared to lose a lot of money.
If you listen to polka, rock, acid or prehistoric drumming, well... Enjoy it!
If you dress in rags you never change, prepare for people to avoid the smell. If you dress in a very short dress, prepare to avoid the cold, ànd the hungrily-looking walking boners. If you decide to dress in black leather, enjoy it! Which counts for all means of clothing, as long as you can cope with the practical consequences (cold, heat, rapists,...)
If you decide not to work, prepare to be poor or getting lucky someday. If you decide to be a workaholic, prepare for getting loaded but risking health issues.

But most importantly, any of these actions and decisions and any of its opposites hold NO value or meaning. So enjoy them, don't judge them.

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The same counts for behavior. There is no good or bad behavior, only choice and consequence. There are no such things as "extreme" or "deviant" behavior, because there is no way for us to judge whether someone else's actions are right or wrong.
If I choose to jump in a fire, I'll have to bear the consequences of that. As long as I'm aware of the burning I'll encounter, I know what I'm doing, so my actions can't be "wrong". They àre stupid, however, because I know I'm going to consciously shorten my lifespan dearly, which can hardly be called intelligent or practical.
Intelligence and fear are a very important factor here, more on this on the relevant page.

In any case, we are not to judge other people's behavior, the way they speak, act, dress, walk, live or even see. Our own words, decisions, tastes and views are entirely subjective, any value we would want to give to them is irrelevant, since it would have a different value or meaning for any other person.
There are more than 6 billion (6.000.000.000!!!) different views on what the "right" way is to live, see, think, act, decide or walk; what makes any 1 of these thé right one? Thé true one? Nothing does, because there IS no way to decide what value one of these actions has, since there isn't any.

Yet we still dare to judge people on how they choose to spend their lives.

It goes without saying that this counts on pretty much every level. The choice between a red dress or spiky leather pants; the choice to spend your weekends studying algorythms developed in the summer of 1991 or to devote your life to staring at walls; the choice between becoming a parent or not; the choice to make a professional career or not; the choice to attempt to rule the world, or to live life as unnoticed as possible.

Instead of being respectful for other people's choices we hide behind the hypocrisies of freedom of speech and the abuse of "opinions" so we can judge how inferior those are who didn't pick our way of life out of the 6.000.000.000 possibilities. 


Respect and reality:

Since there is no such thing as objective truth, there can only be subjective truth. There is no such thing as "real" or "realistic", because we all see things differently. We decide what to call truthful and what to call realistic.

This also means that there is no way to convince people of a certain belief or view on life. If I look at the sky and see it grey, how can you possibly explain to me that it's blue? You don't see through my eyes, neither do I see through yours. Grey is my reality, and untill my sight changes, I won't see it blue. (Although it IS possible for sight and vision to change.)

A certain amount of respect is in order if we are to be able to live in group; respect, meaning in this case that we accept that other people see things differently, that neither their nor our vision holds àny truth at all, if only a subjective (thus worthless) one, and that either their or our vision can someday change to any other vision; respect meaning that there is no way to judge other people and how they see things, spend their lives or even not spend their lives, since none of those things hold any value or meaning.


Conclusion

Note, again, that I don't renounce society, but that I do renounce the way we treat each other and the way we define and categorize each other and ourselves and use these surreal unbased values and morals to put ourselves above others.
The SocioNihilistic visions on morality and respect may seem rather simple, but in reality they are hard to live by. Very often the exact opposite of all this has become the standard; people so convinced of their beliefs, so convinced of their purpose and the meaning they've given themselves and what they do, trying to convince other people that they see things "wrong" or that they're not living right.

We need our society to survive, it's mankind's tool to keep on living. It's a pity, however, that it's been corrupted so badly with lies and meaningless values, erasing all means of self-respect and respect towards other people.

The theory written above còuld be a solution for this, however I'm not too optimistic. As mentioned before, all this is just theory and holds no truth or certainty at all, only by putting this theory into practice can one find out whether it's possible or not. I'm doing so as we speak, but a one-man army barely is succesful.


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