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think of it as a label for the process by which you decide to prioritize cleaning up different areas of your house -- and utility becomes a rational and humanizing thing.

using it to prioritize your relations forces you to grapple with subjective and irrational things such as personal prefs, aspirations etc. so.. also rational and humanizing.

this leaves using it to mess with others without them participating in weight-setting (democracy as a weight discovery mechanism?), that's where it gets messy.

i fail to see where any of the three facets above make it humiliating to see where 'by priority' the most relative improvement can be made. i mean, this is all just fine talk about something innate to nature, no?



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