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I have some ideas on how to make this argument better. First of all, I don't think some of the desires you listed are universal among humans. If something is universal that means every human shares that desire. I personally wouldn't want to be rich without much effort or own a space station and i'm sure there exist people in the world who don't have the space for a car or might have religious guidlines that they follow that discourage the use of electricity. A safe way to ensure that a trait or catagory is universal is if the trait / catagory you listed encompasses the sphere of all possible outcomes. For example let's say all humans are either (1) happy, (2) sad, or (3) neither happy or sad. This is a universal trait since no matter what you choose, there are humans that fall under one of these catagories. If you rewrote your list in this form you could fix these problems. For your weird behavior argument I think weird behavior could be defined in the following 3 catagories: (1) Weird behavior that is productive (2) weird behavior that is unproductive, (3) weird behavior that is neither productive or unproductive.