Thanks to both my busy schedule and Steemit's lovely new interface, I didn't see this right away, but there's an interesting angle I'd like to add. Since staunch pragmatism is a "needs-based" philosophy - that nothing should exist if there's no need for it, then proponents of such a philosophy can easily be hoisted with their own petard. Pragmatism is a very popular argument for banning certain things - art, for instance. "No-one needs to see this crap," some prude will declare. Gun-grabbers use it too, because "no-one needs a 30-round magazine." Well, no-one needs electricity, if you think about it for more than a minute. No-one needs a car that can go faster than 70mph, though that "need" is, itself, based on a completely artificial speed limit. Certainly no-one needs to spend time on the internet cesspit called Twitter, and no-one needs to have a favourite colour. If you really think about it, staunch pragmatists are all a bunch of hypocrites, since, bar none, they all own and/or use things that they don't need.