Word: black pill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Nihilism sense influenced by preexisting red pill. See there for further explanation. 1. An opium pill. Labels: slang Example: Those funny pipes were used for opium-smoking — just a puff for each shining black pill, and then oblivion to all earthly cares — dreams and dreams of beautiful worlds. Example: I knew a girl-a black pill freak, strung out on the black pills, . . . 2. A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it. Example: He says conditions got worse as time went along and at different times she threatened to give him a black pill, that he asked her what this meant and she said "that was the way women had of getting rid of husbands when they didn't want them any more." Example: The day I got into med school my mother told me that if she were ever to find herself without her mental faculties that I should give her the "black pill." 3. A hypothetical pill with a specific probability of causing death, which one is offered a large sum of money in order to take, as a philosophical dilemma. Example: Now that we have both the black pill and white pill results before us, we are in a position to make a few general observations. Example: But to me both characters in the black pill example were immoral in Kant's sense: the person who made the offer and the person who accepted it (to accept the offer of deliberately running a risk of death for dollars gain is treating humanity in yourself as a means only, whether or not you agree, or perhaps especially if you agree) 4. A traditional Tibetan remedy. Example: However, disquiet has been voiced recently about how "natural" certain forms of traditional Buddhist medicine are - notably the Tibetan "black pill" - some recipes for which specify rhinoceros horn and bear-bile among the ingredients (Leland, 1995). Example: This great precious Cold Compound Black Pill contains more than one hundred ingredients, including the metals, gold, silver, copper, and iron, the precious stones sapphire, emerald, turquiose, ruby, and all in detoxified from and a great number of herbal ingredient, including Crocus sativus L. Silkious concretion of bamboo. 5. A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, or those who are pessimistic about social or political issues. Labels: attributive, often Example: Once an individual had accessed this page they would be directed to a number of stories that described other candidates, in this case Fillon and Macron, as crooked, and also described French democracy as a broken system (the 'black pill' content). Example: They see a dangerous trend in the incel movement: “The spreading of the blackpill would no doubt increase shooting (and suicides) because some young men lose control”. 6. The belief that genetics and appearance (as defined by LMS and PSL theory) determine one's destiny and that effort (especially regarding the sexual marketplace) is futile. Example: The first way forum posters express how they deal with depression is through the term “LDAR” or “lay down and rot”. This phrase follows the logic of the blackpill that life is hopeless for incels due to their inability to reach stereotypical standards of masculinity. 7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, pill.