This is why I now advocate a form of nihilism, or what I like to call "Zen-Cosmicism", which is a spiritual acceptance of the absurdity and material futility of our existence, without drawing any debilitating moral conclusions therefrom. The universe is what it is, but it's not my problem and it can't be fixed, so I'm not going to get neurotic or fanatical about fixing it.

The second sentence is a debilitating moral conclusion drawn from the first.