Are you saying your moral claims are true because they lead to better outcomes by your estimation? That would be textbook Appeal to Consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences …
Of course that's not what that means. It's probablistic - looking at only the successful cases is cherry-picking. Lots more anti-social, untrustworthy people live worse lives specifically because they're anti-social and untrustworthy but a few prosper.
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I've been talking about truth, not life advice. Truth is necessarily universal, so moral truths would have to be universal. So if it is not necessarily the case that bad deeds lead to bad outcomes, there's no universality, so the moral claim is false.
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In other words, any behavior isn't wrong by your standard if you can get away with it.
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