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Nihilistic online networks groom minors to commit harm. Her son was one of them (text.npr.org)
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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

"The term Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) refers to what is motivating some of these subjects to commit criminal acts," the FBI wrote in a statement to NPR. "They want to sow chaos and facilitate the destruction of society."

Ah, fuckers who coined the term have no clue what nihilism means.

[–] NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I'm honestly curious. I know nihilism is about life not having any objective or inherent meaning, but I don't see how that conflicts with their motovation. Can you explain?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 21 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Nihilism is not about making life harder, or sowing chaos, it's about accepting that there's no meaning to anything. Sowing chaos does not fit with that. It's not that nihilism would forbid you from that (it's a philosophy, not religion), but there's nothing nihilistic about sowing chaos and destruction of society, so the naming is very wrong.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nihilism isn't really a philosophy as much as it's an absence of philosophy. The idea of that creating a kind of random deviant behavior isn't really that unusual. There's lots of different kinds of nihilism as well. You can say someone is linguistic nihilist if they twist words to mean whatever suits their other interests. You can say someone is a meta-ethical nihilist if they reject the idea of global moral truth but still adhere to a localized moral behavior. You can call someone a metaphysical nihilist if they are unconcerned with the nature of their own being but still don't want to get hit in the mouth.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 4 months ago

It's not an absence of philosophy, it is a philosophical belief. Absence of philosophy is not thinking about it.

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