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> ... Whether we are concerned with commodity bundles consumed by individuals or weights signifying the relative importance of different individual's opinions, more than just the bundles and weights matter. The process by which bundles are selected and the process by which weights are chosen matter in societies of conscious agents. Who chooses under what circumstances matters as well as what gets chosen. It is because we are conscious agents that one cannot separate ends from means.
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