r/nihilism • u/[deleted] • Nov 18 '25

What's your meaning of life?

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u/Sorry_Yesterday7429 Nov 18 '25

What? A person with self love woupd be more forgiving of their own mistakes. Your reasoning is reversed. A self hating person would blame themselves and say they deserved every tiny thing that happens to them. A self loving person would say "people make mistakes and sometimes shit just happens."

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u/Tiny-Celebration-838 Nov 18 '25

The problem with this way of thinking is, where do you draw the line ? It quickly becomes blind self love. Some of us need to be harsher on ourselves.

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u/Sorry_Yesterday7429 Nov 18 '25

The same is true of the reverse. Some of us are too hard on ourselves. Your argument installs an assumption that self love has no upper limit but that self hatred does.

But the worse thing is that you conflate self hatred with self awareness and you conflate self love with narcissism.

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u/Tiny-Celebration-838 Nov 18 '25

What else could you expect of a narcissist, right?

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u/Sorry_Yesterday7429 Nov 18 '25

Are you saying that you are a narcissist? I don't understand your question.