Metaethics Quotes

“...a guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it. You come from one of the latter and you’re being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you might imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence. I know that and they know that; you had better accept it.”
― Iain M. Banks

“The biophysics of ethics is metaethics.”
― Farooq A. Shiekh

“Struggle and doubt exist and with them Others exist, otherwise nothing exists. Without struggle and doubt, I would be one with the universe and disappear. I do not want to be one with the universe. I reject it as it rejects me.”
― Valeriano Diviacchi, The Last Syllable: A Warrior’s Final Dialogues

“So what is the point of all this? A lifetime of contemplating suicide and what have I learned? I have learned the answer to the one “truly serious philosophical problem” and “the fundamental question of philosophy” is: “no”, life is not worth living. Life is a story “[t]old by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing”. However, this also means it is not worth dying for. Neither suicide nor killing is a will-to-power option for a nihilist true to their beliefs. If one wants to die, find something worth dying for.”
― Valeriano Diviacchi, On Suicide: A Nihilist Memoir and Other Nihilist Essays