Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-3365837-20150304213210/@comment-1672596-20150305134201

Bluerock wrote: Nice copy and paste job there. Save yourself the trouble, as I've actually played those games. I still don't see where Snake said to not believe in anything at all and that everything was pointless.

In fact, take Snake's advice:

Snake: ''Listen, don't obsess over words so much. Find the meaning behind the words, then decide.''

That's relativism, but it's hardly believing in nothing. He encourages Raiden to believe in something, and not to be dictated to what to believe by events around him. The claim that "There's no such thing in the world as absolute reality." is nihilistic, actually. If reality is not absolute, the implication of that is that it's meaningless. Things being relative means they are meaningless.

And my mom actually had a good saying once: "Words have meaning."