In regards to eating meat

[yossarian]

I don't think objectivity exists.

Whatever you see behind my demeanor, I don't know. My subjective desire is to have all others' subjectivity accepted/allowed/respected. So, what it seems you see in me as "nothing matters", I see as "you do you, I'm going to do me". And, yes, I realize I'm doing the exact same thing. I can't help it because it is inescapable.

So intellectually you are a good skeptic, you're doing a good job.

But what I perceive is that this belief has lead to a kind of fatalism and passivity. Why should this lead to passivity? Why not furious action toward a cause? It's all the same anyway isn't it?

Since objectivity doesn't exist and subjectivity is inescapable, why constantly bring it up? Why not just revel in it like a pig in the mud? Why not embrace it and go and conquer the world instead of constantly mentioning how objectivity doesn't exist?

I believe a passive skeptic who mentions his skepticism constantly is fighting against his skepticism. It sounds to me like the question about how nothing can be known is interesting enough to you that most of your posts deal with it in some way. A skeptic who was more thoroughly convinced of skepticism, on the other hand, would probably just follow convention and be a conventional pleasure seeker.

Maybe you do do this but I've also noticed a lot more philosophizing and reflection from you and to me this indicates some kind of turmoil and some kind of discontent with the passivity of the skeptical attitude.

It's interesting that, intellectually, skepticism would seem to say there is no objective truth, and yet in practice skeptics reject their own subjectivity by not following it. So you might have a subjective impulse saying chakras have colors or something but a skeptic kills the impulse using skeptical thought and returns to passivity. But why kill the impulse? Why not just run with it since skepticism says it basically doesnt really matter what you do?

I think the reason skeptics don't run with it is because they aren't deeply emotionally convinced of their skepticism. On some level the skepticism is an expression of the emotions associated with rebellion and apathy rather than simply an intellectual philosophy.