Morality

Most people, when they say "morality", mean the mainstream version of religion-inspired individualistic, simple tendencies that won't anger or hurt anyone too much. The sentiment underlying all TV and mass communications, for example, is "don't rock the boat, don't go too far from comfort". This of course links back to all kinds of unexplored psychological minefields our society hasn't confronted yet, but the most glaring surface problem is that you can't get anything done while tied down in paralysis, in thrall to the Lowest Common Denominator emotional childhood people share as the boundary/ies of all widespread public discussion.

Nihilism rejects human morality because it's imaginary and particular to the fears of the crowd: "Will someone hate me?"; "Can I survive if robots emulate my intelligence?" - Nihilism infact is, under the inherent non-specifity of the universe, substitute humanistic rules of conduct for one that makes practical sense, or equally anything else that can be imagined if you use your imagination.

There are however glaring and profound lessons to learn from the morality of the dying thought systems that created the common meaning of the word, and we will explore them, because the morality instead of nihilism or any other non-isolationist thought system is actually more simple in principle and is, by definition, something reconstructed based on the constantly re-evaluated models of needs 

Chopsticks
A woman who had worked all her life to bring about good was granted one wish, “Before I die let me visit both hell and heaven.” Her wish was granted.

She was whisked off to a great banqueting hall. The tables were piled high with delicious food and drink. Around the tables sat miserable, starving people as wretched as could be.

“Why are they like this?” she asked the angel who accompanied her.

“Look at their arms,” the angel replied.

She looked and saw that attached to the people’s arms were long chopsticks secured above the elbow. Unable to bend their elbows, the people aimed the chopsticks at the food, missed every time and sat hungry, frustrated and miserable.

“Indeed this is hell! Take me away from here!”

She was then whisked off to heaven. Again she found herself in a great banqueting hall with tables piled high. Around the tables sat people laughing, contented, joyful.

“No chopsticks I suppose,” she said.

“Oh yes there are. Look, just as in hell they are long and attached above the elbow but look, here people have learnt to feed one another”.