This is a spectacularly ill-posed question. For one thing, it seems to blur the distinction between morality and values in general, by asking such questions like “Would you stay in bed because there was no reason to get up?” What does that have to do with morality?
When you get rid of a sense of values, the result is clinical depression (and generally, a non-functional person). When you get rid of a sense of morality, the result is a psychopath. Psychopaths, unlike the depressed, are quite functional.
So the question reduces to, what would you do if you were a psychopath? This is perhaps interesting to think about, but hard to answer, since most of us are not psychopaths and find it extremely difficult to imagine what it would be like to be one. And if you were one, you wouldn’t be you, since the fundamental structure of your personality would be vastly different.
This is a spectacularly ill-posed question. For one thing, it seems to blur the distinction between morality and values in general, by asking such questions like “Would you stay in bed because there was no reason to get up?” What does that have to do with morality?
When you get rid of a sense of values, the result is clinical depression (and generally, a non-functional person). When you get rid of a sense of morality, the result is a psychopath. Psychopaths, unlike the depressed, are quite functional.
So the question reduces to, what would you do if you were a psychopath? This is perhaps interesting to think about, but hard to answer, since most of us are not psychopaths and find it extremely difficult to imagine what it would be like to be one. And if you were one, you wouldn’t be you, since the fundamental structure of your personality would be vastly different.