re: #70 000G

Why nihilists? The Unabomber believed to be fighting a luddite war for free humanity, Breivik believed to be fighting a crusade against Marxists and Muslims for a Europe of christian nations. They were completely whacko beliefs employed for murderous ends, and maybe in their hearts they just wanted to kill and felt they needed to come up with a reason for it. But on the surface, they clearly were not nihilists. They thought of themselves as doing the right thing, of being good. They did not deny the existence or validity of moral values, like a nihilist would.

But they both wanted to bring chaos to their cultures, yes? And they didn’t care who got hurt. Maybe I just don’t understand what the word means.

Errrmmm…