The Good Baseline
From here: ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.p … 1#p2897521
I agree with Peacegirl on this (using loose definition of preference) because, in order to know you’re wrong (factually, whether about moral facts, or otherwise) you have to have an established baseline/mean from which to depart.
After you depart, you either regret it or appreciate it, and then you start evaluating the baseline and how you departed in order to see if there is some standard by which to judge one baseline better (more truthful, good, or beautiful) than the other. Departing is good if it is departing to the best baseline. Always departing to the best baseline… it’s a thing… in a world of so many crappy baselines 
Only someone who is free to depart from the best baseline, but always chooses it, is truly defined by/as the best baseline.
My C Theory of time makes good sense of coeternal crappy baselines subsumed (concurred—not affirmed) under the greatest baseline. Js.
In “the humanism of existentialism” Sartre says both, “we can never choose evil. We always choose the good…” (p. 293).
and:
301, 351 352, 355
“he has made himself a coward by his acts” (301)
“my shame is a confession” (351)
“Shame—like pride—is the apprehension of myself as a nature although that very nature escapes me…“ (352)
“I am ashamed of being born or I am astonished at it or I rejoice over it, or in attempting to get rid of my life I affirm that I live and I assume this life is bad. Thus in a certain sense I choose being born,” (355).
Ref: Existentialism/ Basic Writings” 2nd Ed., ed. Guignon/Pereboom, Hackett, 2001.
eenie meanie miney moe, catch a tiger by his toe, if he hollers:
a) let him go
b) make him pay $50 every day
My mama said to pick the very best one, and you are it,
but
I want to make my own choices
but
I don’t want to choose out of reactance against authority
but
I don’t want to be forced into choosing, but not choosing is a choice, so how am I free, if I’m not free to not choose?
but
how am I free if I’m NOT free to choose?
but
flies off into space on a de-liberation rocket
Some people are more satisfied with less satisfaction… more satisfaction feels like a set up for disappointment.
But that equivocates on satisfaction.
Regret… when you know you’re feeding the easy version of satisfaction… it starts before you even act.
Unless it’s the unavoidable regret born in hindsight when you learn of opportunities you didn’t see at the time.
But the opposite reaction can also occur at seeing missed opportunities in hindsight. Appreciation.
So if you know this is the greatest possible forum, why did you earlier express regret as if you weren’t choosing in accordance with your preferences? (Same reason God expresses regret.)
Answered my own question. Thanks.