Si Nihil Refert Cur Eat?

If Nothing Matters Why Go On?

A Nihilist's Purpose.
It's an important question to ask, when one is a nihilist, why one shouldn't "end it all". After all, if there is nothing that is being strived for in this life as a way to reach something greater in the next, and, in fact, there is nothing of value at all in this life, why not just end it as soon as you reach this conclusion? What is the purpose of the nihilistic life?

Well, of course there isn't one. There's nothing that can be done to convince me that when life gets hard, the simple solution isn't really...simple.

But to die now, while it means that I myself as an entity end (I'm not sure that "entity" is even the right word, since the entirety of what makes me, me, is stored in my brain and that won't go away when I die, so am I not still the exact same entity?), it doesn't mean I stop affecting what has already occured and what will still occur.
This is not to put some kind of "It's A Wonderful Life" kind of spin on suicide. Like, I'd regret it because of all the things that would have been if I'd stayed. And it's not even to bring up again what stopped me as a rash and depressed youth, that is, knowing that my family didn't really deserve to go through something like that. It's simpler than that. It's biological.

It's genes.
The entire purpose for being here, now, alive, is to make sure that my genes continue. No, I have not reverted from my position as child-free. But the genes that are in my body aren't just the genes of my parents intermixed and they're not just the biophysical history of my ancestors. They're the code of the evolution of my species. To continue my genes is to continue the species. And that requires me to make sure there's somewhere for my species to be.
My purpose is to be an environmentalist, although only so far since we're all going to die sometime, aren't we?  My purpose is to protest human rights violations because the cruelty involved hinders the ability of those members of the species to keep their section of the code active and healthy. My purpose is to argue for equality for all minorities because every single person on the planet is a genetic history equal in worth for the continuance of the species as any other. Basically, any socially-conscious activity I participate in comes down to this.
The purpose of my life is to make life like mine continue for no other reason than we're here now.

Modo Paucae Minor Res Dialecticorum

Just a Few Minor Matters of Logic

Correlation does NOT equal causation = That nearly 50% of cancers of the mouth larynx and pharynx are associated with heavy drinking does not mean they are CAUSED by heavy drinking. You know what else heavy drinkers tend to do? Smoke. Now, I'm not saying there's not a possibility that if you drink Apple SourPuss by the case that there aren't any carcinogens. And I'm not saying that the peaty flavour of a good Scotch might not be actual peat and actually cancer-causing. What I'm saying is they haven't isolated the factors.

Utility is awfully underrated. It's so very overlooked when calculations are done for price comparison or "good value". A few Philosophers will even dismiss "'people like' sometimes means 'it's good'" type arguments. I do, often. Until I pay $1.00/100mL for mayonnaisse instead of $0.84/100mL because a squeeze jar means I'll NEVER get FAT all over my HANDS which results in having to WASH them!
Being neurotic means 16 cents per hundred mL (about two-three days less a month of mayonnaise for the cost) of savings is just NOT worth it! CONVENIENCE! Or, for philosophers and economists, UTILITY!

Parsing matters. I understand that I am sometimes, especially when writing an actual paper, hard to understand. I interestingly put words in order; sometimes, I order words interestingly; sometimes I even put words in an interesting order. And each time I do it means something different. Please, if you're reading my work and find it hard to parse...break it down to the symbols, parts of speech or phrases, the same way I do with Latin...because it MEANS something. I'll never not use a double negative just because the kids in my classes don't understand what emphasis means.

And finally,

Dear Punctuation,
I know you want to be inside of me; but sometimes, I'm just feeling we're not that connected.
Signed, Quotation Marks.