Merged The razor of Hitchens and the Spirits!

Breach of rule 4, specifically posting unattributed text generated by AI.
Let us suppose that, by some circumstance, an entire people were to acquire the certainty that in eight days, in a month, in a year if you will, they would be annihilated, and that no individual would survive, that there would be no trace of themselves after death; what would they do during this time? Would they work for their betterment, for their education? Would they devote themselves to work in order to live? Would they respect the rights, the goods, the lives of their fellow men? Would they submit to the laws, to any authority, even the most legitimate: paternal authority? Would they have any duty whatsoever? Certainly not. Well then! What cannot be achieved en masse, the doctrine of nihilism achieves, each day, individually. If the consequences of this are not as disastrous as they might be, it is firstly because among the majority of unbelievers there is more bravado than true incredulity, more doubt than conviction, and because they are more afraid of nothingness than they try to appear: the title of strong-mindedness flatters their self-esteem; secondly, because absolute unbelievers are a tiny minority; despite themselves, they feel the ascendancy of the contrary opinion and are maintained by a material force; but if absolute incredulity were one day to become the opinion of the majority, society would be in dissolution. This is what the propagation of the doctrine of nihilism tends to do.
 
Calderaro said:
I want to start the debate from scratch! Is it possible?
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No, because everyone remembers what you have already posted, and the rebuttals of it, even if you can't.

If you want to start again, all you need to do is go back to the start of the thread and read it.
 
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