You are using “social necessity” in a different way from Raemon. Maybe that’s entirely deliberate, but it’s worth making explicit. It’s perfectly possible for something to be
a social necessity in the sense that anyone who doesn’t do it will suffer serious adverse social consequences, but
not a social necessity in the sense that our society would be better off if people did it much less or not at all.
You are using “social necessity” in a different way from Raemon. Maybe that’s entirely deliberate, but it’s worth making explicit. It’s perfectly possible for something to be
a social necessity in the sense that anyone who doesn’t do it will suffer serious adverse social consequences, but
not a social necessity in the sense that our society would be better off if people did it much less or not at all.