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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
I claim morality without God, am I immoral and self-absorbed?
If yes, feel free to include your evidence.
I'm going to take the opposite position for the sake of exploring this. If you're interested to.
If we take morality to mean something like "
a particular system of values and principles of conduct" or "
principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour., then you are claiming to have such a system or set of principles.
What are they and from where did you acquire them?
(I'm obviously leading up to a point where I intend to show that your values are arbitrary and that you can't know right from wrong unless you have an infallibale source of absolute values, and so whilst you could techniocally claim to be 'moral, that claim is virtually meaningless.
Also, while I'm no expert on ethics and moral philosophy, it's been a subject of great interest to me for some years and I'm not coming to this with no knowledge. I personally subscribe to a form of Virtue theory, althought it's not very helpful generally.)