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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 16 June 2015 03:05:18PM 0 points [-]

Since I have a typically depressive personality, not really caring about myself being happy, I cannot really care about others being happy as well and thus terminal values are not found.

Well. Thinking about it I realize that for your kind of personality a falling back to carng and following goals indeed doesn't seem necessary. On the other hand the arbitrariness of nihilism isn't that different from the passivity from depression - so in a way maybe you already did lock back into the same pattern anyway?