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My definition of "important" is either correct or incorrect. I looked over the parable of hemlock and didn't see anything which leads me to believe that my definition is incorrect. Maybe I missed it though.
In a pragmatarian system, people would choose where their taxes go. Because of the opportunity costs involved, people's choices would reveal what's most important to them. Earner valuation would ensure that society's limited resources were put to their most valuable uses.
Definitions are not "correct" or "incorrect" that's part of the point of the sequence on how to use words. Words can capture an intuition better or worse, or they can be useful categories, or they can communicate ideas well or not well, but they can't be correct or incorrect. And if something follows trivially from the definition of something then there isn't content. Neither reality nor morality can be altered by how one defines words.