Moral nihilism: there is no such thing as Morality

Throughout history, billions of people have grappled with the same question: what is the right thing to do? Even after millions of years and countless philosophical theories struggling to explain morality, we have no definitive answer to this fundamental question. Maybe, then, we’re missing something. After all, our struggle with morality makes a huge assumption, erroneously claiming that morality exists to begin with. According to moral nihilism, there is no such thing as right or wrong. () Rather, these categories are arbitrary constructs, created by humans, that reflect no objective value in the outside world. While all moral nihilists agree that claims like “it is wrong to steal” are untrue, there are two main viewpoints that attempt to clarify this point in slightly different ways. One says that all moral claims are false, while the other states they are neither true nor false. () Both agree that to blindly abide by meaningless moral rules is to accept a fictional view of the world and worse, a view that will only serve to needlessly control your every thought, word, and action.