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Marginal utility (Part II)

 §1. Utility is the pleasure over pain. I prefer it to be total experience  minus pain. 

§2. This pleasure as it is claimed diminishes when more and more extra units of pleasure is added. 

§3. Pleasure is indirectly measured by quantity of the thing to be consumed. More quantities consumed in succession, it gives less and less pleasure on margin.

§4. Now let us divert from these established way of thinking (or may be I get so). Does the pleasure come from fulfilling the objective for which action is taken or by just the action of consuming? If we say the objective then utility can be fulfillment of sense organ pleasing or fulfilling human needs. If we give up sense pleasure and just focus on human needs then utility is continuing the existence. 

§5. If utility is related with need fulfillment, can we say need is full filled in stages and that is in diminishing fashion? I think, need is just need and its fulfillment is not possible in stages. Action can be taken in stages. Hence, action can be diminishing not the end itself. 

§6. Suppose I have to build house. It takes 10000 bricks. We can see that home alone can make me pleased. I put 100 bricks at a time. Then another 100 and so on. Suppose I put 10th count totaling 1000 bricks. Can I say it make me satisfied and next 9000 bricks make me less pleased. I don’t think so. All bricks give equal utility that is zero. 

Here, utility is seeing the complete house (objective) and bricks laying is process of getting their (action) and bricks are consumed to fulfill utility. 

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