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Sure, but if you're really a nihilist, then you don't have any reason to do so. Nor to pretend not to be a nihilist. Nor to drink beer rather than antifreeze.
It certainly looks as though you do things for reasons, and prefer some actions to others. Every single time you wrote a sentence above, you continued writing it in English till the very end, which would be very impressive to happen merely by chance.
Maybe I'm missing something.
I'm not saying my behavior is random, or un-caused. I experience preferences among actions. Factors I'm unaware of undoubtedly play a part, something I can speculate on, and others as well, and I or they could try to model them. But as I experience reality, I'm only striving up to a point to do the Right Thing. My speculation is that if the cost exceeds the cost of reminding myself I'm actually a nihilist, I'll bail on morality.
I'm very interested in arguments as to why nihilism isn't a consistent position -- heck, even why it's not a good idea or how other people have gotten around it.