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Oughts and wants are not mutually exclusive in their first-order desirability. You ought to do what you want is a basic axiom of volition. That implies that you also want what you ought. Yet a distinction, if minor, between ought and want is that the former is often a second-order desire as it is instrumental to the latter primary goal.
Again, whether you ought to do what you want depends on what you want.
Can you demonstrate that what you just said is true?
EDIT: And perhaps provide a definition of "ought"?