our nihilism, The Mechanics of Virtue, aphorism 262

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After we have fallen through our moral systems a sufficient number of times, we might decide to bring along a bright torch for the inevitable fall into the next abyss.  We want to record the event and understand it.  But this discipline presupposes a moral framework with which to evaluate our alleged nihilistic experience ... but these too are creaking boards that we back away from ... we back away from the hint that added to the difficulty of morality, we have no right even to our nihilism, and so once again we test only the boards of morality.

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