While studying the book “When helping hurts – how to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor and yourself I came across this word. I looked it up in the Concise Oxford Dictionary “nihilism /ˈnʌɪ(h)ɪlɪz(ə)m / ▸ n. 1 the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. 2 …