Why nihilism has to be bad?


I think this movie wrongly represents the real meaning of nihilism. Or people seem to be grasping the wrong perspective of nihilism.

If nothing matters, if nothing has a meaning, then why would it matter for Owlman to destroy the entire earths' realities? Don't take Owlman as a nihilistic because he wants to destroy everything - present, past, future. He intentionally destroys because he thinks that man is a cancer -- the reason. Then how come people say that he is a nihilistic? If he was a true nihilistic, then he wouldn't bother destroying everything because he probably would realize that it wouldn't matter if man is a cancer or whatever.

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Nihilism is that life is meaningless which is what Owlman is saying.

He's wrong. Life is pointless and without "importance" or "value" (those are myths) but everything has meaning.

You're right that arguably he would just go "So life is meaningless. Might as well go home and be hedonistic and miserable."

Also, this: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000130/nest/263626706

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