सुग्रीवहुँ सुधि मोरि बिसारी। पावा राज-कोस-पुर-नारी॥
The preface to the long book of this short life
S1: The purpose assigned to this life is to have one of the four types of virtues, according to Hume. The actions should orient towards the purpose of the self, S, towards S1
S2: It is obvious that the actions of S can be self-defeating to S1 merely because Reason is, and ought to be, the slave to the passions. So let us partition S into two parts - the finite, which vanishes in a matter of time, and the infinite, which executes S1 and lives forever in the judgments of posterity.
S3: The finite wants while the infinite needs. Let O be the object under consideration:
S exploiting O: Finite wants A, while infinite doesn’t
S avoiding O: Finite doesn’t want A, while infinite does
S virtuosizing O: Finite wants A, and infinite does as well
O exploiting S: Finite doesn’t want A, neither does infinite
S virtuosizing O is the path of least friction. Other 3 options need difficult solutions, which will be discussed later.
S4: A day will be treated as a unit of documentation and record for S1. Your posterity may fill in the exact evaluation metric.
S5: While S4 is the record, this being actually needs to decide what to do because it has not found in the last 25 years a single man worth deciding on his behalf. He decides now, with the four heuristics laid out in the following article, towards the end:
S6: It has been recorded that over the last two years, if I don’t get a few hours (how many?) a day for synthesis/leisure, it makes me psychotic, depressed, and distracted, so I impose this tax on S1 - while those few hours may be a distraction to S1, they are necessary to avoid a bigger biological tax on S1 that can last decades.
S7: Let these hours in S5 be called LH (Leisure hours) vs VH (Virtue Hours) in S1. While VH are guided by a goal, LH is, by definition, guided by restraints, ie, you can do anything except that which is self-defeating to S1
S8: Imagine going to a lake cleanup as a volunteer. Would you like to clean a spot that already has seemingly more than enough volunteers, or a spot that has less than an optimal number of volunteers? The question of virtue is then an optimal allocation problem of your capabilities (May also include aspirations, commitments etc to the extent they are within your capabilities) in order to attain S1.