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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What makes something 'important?'

Why is literature more important than gossip, philosophy more important than masturbation, world affairs more important than smoking pot etc?

AFAIK, the word 'importance' is only useful when used in reference to a goal. So a pair of scissors would be useful if you want to cut pieces of paper, but it is useless/less useful if your goal is to push a nail into a piece of wood, for that you require a hammer. Likewise, if all I want from life is to masturbate to animated high-school girls with dicks, philosophy or literature holds no relevance for me. But in everyday life, it is taken for granted that some things are just inherently more valuable than others. Why is that? 

Personally, gaming and weed is more fulfilling and holds more relevance to my life than the news or philosophy, but my reasoning might be flawed so here I am.
gpt
The best answer to this question for me is simply that those things are considered to be more important because people who enjoy both type of things, recognize that intelectual pursuits are more meaningful to their lives than masturbating. They also masturbate and enjoy themselves doing it, but recognize that it is a far less transcendent pleasure.

In a similar way, a dog may look at your passion for video games and wonder what's so special about video games, when you can run around in the park all day. However, you know the dog would think this because the dog is not intelligent enough to understand and appreciate the complexity involved in playing video games. If he had the capacity and willingness to invest time in video games, he would probably end up finding video games more important than running in the park, because video games stimulate more developed parts of the brain.

But, in the end of the day, if you don't like video games, that's fine. If you don't enjoy philosophy that's fine. To each his own.