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15 Post author: jkaufman 22 October 2013 12:13PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 October 2013 10:17:06PM 2 points [-]

Yes, if the goal is only to maximize a particular good, then everything else must be sacrificed to it. That is the beauty of maximizing utility, which does not specify anything in particular. Thus it only demands that lesser utilities be foregone in order to obtain greater utilities, which is hardly counterintuitive.