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- "At one point their discussion turns to the topic of what the Greeks called akrasia: acting against ones best judgment."
- "Akrasia is a fancy name for an all-too-common experience. I know I should go to the gym, but I watch Netflix instead. You know youll enjoy dinner more if you stop eating the bottomless chips, but you keep munching nevertheless."
- This makes the article more relatable
- Socrates felt that this didn't make sense, arguing that actions always reveal true beliefs
- "Socrates clearly never went to a restaurant with unlimited chips. But he has a point. To figure out what a persons true priorities are, we usually look to the choices they make. (“Actions speak louder than words.”) When a person binges on TV, munches chips, or gets high despite the consequences, Socrates would infer that they must care more about indulging now than about avoiding those consequences — whatever they may _say_ to the contrary"
- He argues that people simply have bad judgement, and that they aren't acting against their better judgement.
- Addiction intensifies the disconnect between judgement and action
- "Heres the testimony of one person with addiction, reported in Maia Szalavitzs book [_Unbroken Brain_](https://books.google.com/books?id=4yJ3CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false): “I can remember many, many times driving down to the projects telling myself, You dont want to do this! You dont want to do this! But Id do it anyway.”
- Ethos
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