The self you're defending doesn't exist

In his second sermon, the Buddha dissected a person into five ever-changing aggregates: body, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness, and showed none qualifies as a permanent self. Anatta doesn't deny you function in the world; it denies an unchanging soul sits underneath doing it.

— Gautama Buddha, Anattalakkhana Sutta — Pali Canon, Samyutta Nikaya 22.59