A scene from Love and Death 1975
Sonya

But, if there is no God, then life has no meaning. Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide?

Boris Gruschenko

Well, let's not get hysterical. I could be wrong. I'd hate to blow my brains out and then read in the paper that they found something.

Sonja

Boris, Let me show you how absurd your position is. Let's say there is no God, and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses. What prevents you from murdering somebody?

Boris Grushenko

Murder's immoral.

Sonja

Immorality is subjective.

Boris Grushenko

Yes, but subjectivity is objective.

Sonja

Not in a rational scheme of perception.

Boris Grushenko

Perception is irrational. It implies immanence.

Sonja

But judgment of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.

Boris Grushenko

Yeah, I've said that many times.

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