Leopold and Loeb

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Two German students from the 1920s who, after reading Nietzsche, committed an unmotivated murder, misinterpreting nihilism as a justification for acting against conventional morality.

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Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227

Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227

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Two German students from the 1920s who, after reading Nietzsche, committed an unmotivated murder, misinterpreting nihilism as a justification for acting against conventional morality.