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"Maximizing global utility", whatever that's supposed to mean, is grossly unlikely to involve maximizing everyone's individual utility.
You're complaining that (in these hypothetical scenarios) your personal utility isn't being maximized and then demanding that things be changed so that you, personally, are as happy as possible.
You state you want general maximization, then you demand that you want personal maximization at the expense of the general. Your words and your actions don't agree.
Part of the problem here is that you're not saying what constitutes an "abuse" of the rules / system, and your actual meaning is one that would be rejected by others if you stated it explicitly.
It looks like you've misplaced this comment - it seems like it's a response to some comment, but not Alicorn's. Alicorn was just pointing out a nice bit of logic.
It's in response to Alicorn's post and things she's said earlier in this thread.