This sounds like a moot point. The subject of the essay is correlation of stately statistical categories. The entire discussion remains purely in the abstract,

This sounds like a moot point. The subject of the essay is correlation of stately statistical categories. The entire discussion remains purely in the abstract, and by this I mean the categories in question are abstract and the correlated heirarchies are abstract on every level. To take any issue with this in utility or morality would be to take issue with theoretical analysis itself. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you are not intending to do that.