What’s a nihilist, and how would you distinguish it empirically from Eliezer?
If you meant to ask why we don’t benefit your tribe politically by associating ourselves with it: we don’t see any moral or practical reason to do so. It it turns out that nihilists have actually faced discrimination from the general public in the ways atheists have (and therefore declaring ourselves nihilists would help them at our slight expense), I might have to reconsider. Though happily, I don’t belong to a religion that requires this, even if I turn out to meet the dictionary definition.
What’s a nihilist, and how would you distinguish it empirically from Eliezer?
If you meant to ask why we don’t benefit your tribe politically by associating ourselves with it: we don’t see any moral or practical reason to do so. It it turns out that nihilists have actually faced discrimination from the general public in the ways atheists have (and therefore declaring ourselves nihilists would help them at our slight expense), I might have to reconsider. Though happily, I don’t belong to a religion that requires this, even if I turn out to meet the dictionary definition.