We often need units of measurement, models, comparisons. The need for guidance can never ignore the method, and the method can never be ideological, on pain of the lack of an overall vision that allows, before any other personal consideration, exactly a “consideration in its own right”. This is the way we see a backpack of tools and so we go to offer it to our fellow readers.
One could begin with a rhetorical question, but that would be a waste of time that nobody has any desire left to invest in useless formalities, because the answer is …