- Perform an action: The best are selfish, even if they appear noble and self-sacrificing. The more twistedly self-centered, the better.
- The past is immutable: Immutable means unchangeable, and it's the only thing that makes this little theory work.
- Therefore, the actions of the past are also immutable: Once you've performed your action and it's in the past, nobody can change it.
The quality of immutability is higher than mutability (or so the Greeks, who knew a little about philosophy, tell us), so an action in the past must be morally superior to any future action, which might possibly be changed. So do whatever the hell you want as soon as you can if you really want to live a moral and upstanding existence.
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