A man without convictions

What would you say if I told that not only do I have no religious beliefs, I also have no moral beliefs?

People can and do live their lives without shaping their conduct to suit a god, though that is not to say they don't shape their conduct to suit laws or customs or their neighbors' preferences predicated on the supposed will of some supposed god.

Nor is it to say they don't lie about it. Perhaps, sometimes, even to themselves.

Similarly, people can and do live their lives without shaping their conduct to suit moral truths, though that is not to say they don't shape their conduct to suit laws or customs or their neighbors' preferences predicated on such supposed things.

And ditto about lying.

"Live according to the customs of the country" is an ancient maxim of the skeptics.

Too, just as people can and do have and express preferences about the conduct of others, about laws, about the shapes of states, about international relations, about the structure and workings of the economy, or about the details of constitutions for entirely secular reasons or motives, they can do all those things for reasons or motives both secular and non-moral.

Sometimes these reasons will resemble the reasons offered in support of moral claims like "democracy is more just than any alternative" or "it is unjust to prohibit gay marriage."

But one takes them to be reasons in favor of democracy or permitting gay marriage rather than in favor of any moral claim.

And that is all.

So, almost a man without convictions.