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It's weird because most outlooks that start with your premise have very strong moral components to them usually. Classical Eastern and Western philosophies center on one's quest to be a good part of Nature, to be a good specimen of whatever it is you eternally and innately are.
To whit, I do not believe Realism of this kind and Nihilism to be compatible.
If nature is immutable, it has an innate quality to it, a particular way of things, an order, which one can upset with terrible consequences.
And you, as part of it, have a duty to avoid this error, you can't just sit it out as an observer because apathy is death.
Of course these duties are much less grand than making the perfect society. You just have to be a good whatever it is you are. Neighbor, husband, mother, worker, student, businessman, beggar; it doesn't really matter what or who you are, but you have to play the cards you have as well as you can. Only because to not do it is a waste.
That is quite important, yes. If you're in actor in the middle of a play and you think that the play sucks, you're not going to make it better if you start stealing lines from another actor because you think you can say them better than he can. That will only ruin the play even more. The only thing you can do to improve the play, is to play your own role as best you can.
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