/lit/ - Literature

>>19257296
Here's a pragmatic argument I've come up with (maybe someone more important came up with it before but who cares). Either life has meaning or it doesn't. If it has meaning, then you are wasting that meaning by having a nihilistic worldview and acting on it (i.e. not acting to actualize meaning in the world), so it is best to act as if nihilism is not true. If life doesn't have meaning, then it doesn't matter if you're believing the nihilistic truth or deceiving yourself, so it doesn't matter either way if you act like nihilism is true. So if the possible cases are one option being better than the other or both equally not mattering, then it is obviously best to take the option that at least has a chance of being better. Therefore, there is no case where it is preferable to act as if nihilism is true, and you should live your life as if it isn't.