Truth

Everything is permitted.
Why?
Because nothing is true.
If there are no laws binding the world then it naturally follows that everything is permitted.
Then why not do anything?
Most do. Most who recognise that nothing is true feel that they are justified into doing whatever they can get away with, so long as it suits their desires. There are people who centre their entire world on themselves and sate their cravings no matter what the cost to themselves or others.
Why do you do these evil things?
They are not evil. Nothing is true.
But they are against the moral code which guides us.
There is no code, it was made up. Everything is permitted.
They may think themselves justified. But they are contradicting themselves. How can “everything is permitted” be a call to vice, when nothing is true?
Pursuing a life of vice is just as pointless as pursuing a life of virtue; because nothing is true.
People who justify their selfish actions because they live in a lawless world are merely disguising the fact their minds are tricking them into following their own primal instincts, no matter how distorted these primal instincts are from any reasonable action. They cloak their own delusion in ideology that itself destroys their own justification.
But then why not just lie down and waste away, why do anything at all?
Because everything is permitted.
A world of meaning is not impossible. A way of life that is meaningful is not impossible. Religion is not impossible. A faith in the divine is not impossible. A code of ethics is not impossible. Society is not impossible.
Because everything is permitted.
But is not nothing true?
Yes.
And everything is permitted.
So, it is permitted that the first part of this statement is false.
But then is the statement not a contradiction?
Yes.
And that is permitted also.
This, I suspect, is the meaning behind the maxim. It calls for the opening of one’s mind to all possibilities, for one to consider every way of life and use reason to judge whether it is worthy or not.
It is a call for contemplation.
Let’s take a simple idea: that in a society man should not harm another man.
Harming a man causes pain.
Pain is bad.
It is bad because it causes damage to the body and mind.
This is bad because if we live in a society with people with damaged bodies and minds, they cannot do the jobs required of them to prop up society.
If they cannot do those jobs, then society cannot exist.
Therefore the statement: “in a society man should be allowed to harm another man” cannot be true because for society to exist people cannot be harmed.
This is obviously a very simple case. One might argue that harm can heal the bodies and minds, like with doctors.
Then it that case one must use reason to come to the truth. And even then one must question themselves always. Because nothing is true and everything is permitted.
Even this definition I have given must be questioned. One must open their minds and contemplate.
We can all make a world that makes sense that way. Perhaps even one where all humankind can find their own expression of life while tolerating each others. Or perhaps we will all find common reason in to which we can create a brotherhood of humankind to which to create a world of peace.
There are those that would stand in the way of this. They are either trapped by irrational truths or themselves propagators of it. Almost always, they are both.
Can they too be freed by the knowledge that nothing is true and everything is permitted?
Did I not answer my own question?