What we are faced with are the fundamental essences innate to 'self-defined sets'. Value-arrangements , a.k.a. The first hurdle to be overcome is to accept that tautologies DO provide perspective and utile valid information, different from individual member entities. In it's purist sense, 'tautology' is the primal enactment of 'emergence'. Let me repeat that.
Tautology is the primal enactment of Emergence.
Yet there are commercial mechanisms, decision mechanisms, information mechanisms, and more, in all sorts of arrangements. Autocracies, aristocracies, democracies, socialisms, etc., with all manner of alternative procedures to accomplish societal welfare. A uniform 'value', a diversity of 'moralities'. Mechanisms verses effective outcomes. Alternative mechanisms are differentially employed, even according to extended environmental conditions.