It is far, far less likely than a car accident.
And no, it is not purely wishful thinking, whenever you look at immigrants to an established population, the more generations that pass, the more they change to fit their surroundings. The more the children of those extremists are exposed to the actual culture the more it changes them and their children etc. In the end empires nor countries are permanent in the long run, there have been rises and falls of both. That being said, the core values laid down in the constitution of Estonia are worth fighting and dieing for in my book, but since the weather and social welfare here suck, we don't get many immigrants.
As to my view on life, yes I am fatalistic, but I do have a set of principles, though they are not standard and I am not going to discuss them in detail here. As for nothing mattering, that really depends on your perspective, humans are so plentiful and short lived that a single life usually is meaningless to the whole, but that individual is a sentient being with needs and desires which matter to him/her and in most cases people they love and care about. To him/her those things and people matter, there might even bee some principles that matter to em. I guess I have it easier in that department as I don't form strong connections to people, there are a few id be willing to kill and die for, but that number is less than 10 and I could probably sever those connections without suffering too much for it. But what I won't do is compromise my principles.
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