Utility: The quality or condition of being useful; usefulness. [0]
for its own sake: if something is done for its own sake, it is done for the value of the experience itself, not for any advantage it will bring [1]
If something is useful, it exists because of the advantage it will bring. The two things are antonyms.
Think a bit more next time you try and dismiss someone offhand with a clever sounding quip. Just because a quip sounds clever does not make it so.
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