"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> > I am an atheist who is firmly
> > rooted in the stewardship school and you're attitude frankly gives me
> > the creeps.

>   Well, someone could have a philosophy like: "I'm only an individual,
> I cannot affect the grand scale of things. I'm poor and I don't have
> children, there's nothing I can leave them as inheritance, not even a
> better world, both because I don't have children and because I can't make
> the world better. The world will follow its course regardless of what
> I do, so stressing about the world being destroyed would be useless,
> even if this destruction happened in my lifetime, much more useless if
> it happens hundreds of years after I'm dead."

More or less, but without the undertones of desperation or self-pity.

>   I personally wouldn't say I absolutely abhor that type of thinking in
> my case.
>
>   (I wonder which school of philosophy this most closely conforms to.
> Maybe nihilism?)

Not quite. But let me ask you this: What philosophical school of thought
would you say that the average Joe on the street belongs to?

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