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Purpose defines what is good and what is bad.
In the process of thinking, I have developed a number of principles that inform my moral judgments. They seem to be objective and universal in nature, and yet they all stem from only one source. That source is our common human experience as it is defined by a single underlying principle: The Principle of Identity.
All entities that exist can be identified by a set of characteristics, and all entities that have been experienced in the past or will be experienced in the future can be classified as instances of these sets of characteristics. For example, I am an instance of bipedal organism with “white” skin (I would describe my skin tone as pale.) That set of characteristics is unique to me, different from every other entity on this planet.
And because all entities that have been experienced in the past or will be experienced in the future can be classified as instances of a set of characteristics, every experience we’ve ever had and every experience we will have has already happened. There is no such thing as new experiences; there are only existing instances being rediscovered.
So, the first of my principles is “All entities that exist have already been experienced.” This is a rather simple and self-evident principle, but it leads to some interesting conclusions.
Because all entities that exist have already been experienced, there is no such thing as a new experience. That is to say, every experience we might have in the future has already happened.
If I have a new experience, it is not new. If you have a new experience, it is not new.