- This article is about the meta-ethical position. For a more general discussion of amoralism, see amorality.
Moral nihilism (also known as
ethical nihilism) is the
meta-ethical view that nothing is intrinsically
moral or immoral. For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is neither inherently right nor inherently wrong. Moral nihilists consider morality to be constructed, a complex set of rules and recommendations that may give a psychological, social, or economical advantage to its adherents, but is otherwise without universal or even relative truth in any sense.