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Happiness and utility are not the same thing. It's perfectly legitimate to say that you would feel better in situation A than you would in situation B, but would still prefer that situation B occurs, and this would mean that you assign higher utility to situation B.
This. If you find yourself considering trying to change your utility function, then something has gone badly wrong.