/lit/ - Literature

>>8986735
Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning. It will change your life. Alternatively watch his youtube lectures

https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos/videos

They're free, dude used to teach at Harvard, it's worth your time. It's basically one giant deontological reassurance that btfo of nihilism.

>>7808378
I had to take an Intro To Philosophy course in college. The prof went around the class getting everyone's answer...my argument was quite simple, I wouldn't do anything because I don't care about these strangers either way. It wasn't well received by my peers.

The same peers who then got btfo when the professor asked if they'd pull the lever, why don't they spend their time trying to save starving Ethiopians or whatever, why they don't spend more of their income on charities, etc...since they are able to save people's lives half the world away by simply spending a dollar. They'd be willing to kill someone else to save a life, but not spend an extra dollar? It was basic entrapment, but most people's moral code is so examined they didn't see this and had no response to effectively being horrible people as per their own worldview. The prof gave me a small nod of recognition afterwards.