Nihilism is negative-idealism in the sense that most Nihilists have no vision for the future. A Nihilist cannot see ‘beyond’ his or her own life, thus many types of nihilism are solipsistic. For example, a Nihilist believes his/her life has no meaning, and is worthless, and could be relatively accurate and true with that judgment. However some lives are more valuable than others. This contradicts modernity and humanist notions of “Equality”. Some lives are worth more than others, hence, some lives have meaning and others do not. Nihilists do not account for this.
An amateur nihilist will say, “all life has no meaning” because his or her life has no meaning. The nihilist is projecting his or her own complete lack of value, negated, onto others, believing that since he has no worth in life, that others must not have worth, and this is false. It’s a logical fallacy. Also most nihilists cannot justify their ideology, beliefs, rationality of meaningless, in such that life has survival instincts. Nihilism cannot properly nor sufficiently explain survival instincts.
Another example, if life inherently has no meaning, then why is all life pre-programmed, genetically, to survive and live and reproduce? Nihilists have no good answers or response.
The “Average Nihilist” is a young, spurned, jaded male, who cannot get laid, and has little to no hope of doing so. A weakling, bullied throughout life. Thus the “Nihilist” believes, usually correctly, that (his) life has no meaning (to anybody else). That’s true. Many nihilists are worthless human beings. And if they died or commit suicide, then yes, nobody would care. To the Nihilists, this is their (moral) validation and redemption, their method of coping and saying, “haha, I told you so, I’m right!”
But it’s “right” in the wrong way.
Objectively, life has instincts, developed and evolved since eternity, and these instincts cause life to continue, despite the minority of excess that “chooses” not to. Over-population is the cause of such ideologies and rationalizations. When there are 10000000000000 human beings alive, then does it really matter if 1 person dies, or 100000 people die? No, because there are still 999999999999999 human beings left. The overall specie is not affected by the minority of nihilists, cynics, nay-sayers, and life-haters.
Life persists without them.
This leads to the notion of ‘Sacrifice’ and the “Social Justice Warrior”. When a specie is over-populated, larger and larger portions of that population can be easily and readily sacrificed for “some great cause” (even if it’s not great, even if it’s frivolous and worthless). Hence Nihilists are a type of human sacrifice, easily lost.
Like an extra limb you don’t need. Who needs a third hand when two do just fine?