I agree, but I think it’s important to mention issues like social desirability bias and strategic self-deception here, coupled with the fact that most people just aren’t particularly good at introspection.
it’s conflicting desires, not conflicting values
It’s both, our minds employ desires in service of pursuing our (often conflicting) values.
Insofar as different values are conflicting, that conflict has already long ago been resolved, and the resolution is: the action which best accords with the person’s values, in this instance, is to get up.
I’d rather put it as a routine conflict eventually getting resolved in a predictable way.
Another example: if someone says “I want to act in accordance with my values” or “I don’t always act in accordance with my values”, we recognize these as two substantive claims. The first is not a tautology, and the second is not a self-contradiction.
Indeed, but I claim that those statements actually mean “I want my value conflicts to resolve in the way I endorse” and “I don’t always endorse the way my value conflicts resolve”.
I agree, but I think it’s important to mention issues like social desirability bias and strategic self-deception here, coupled with the fact that most people just aren’t particularly good at introspection.
It’s both, our minds employ desires in service of pursuing our (often conflicting) values.
I’d rather put it as a routine conflict eventually getting resolved in a predictable way.
Indeed, but I claim that those statements actually mean “I want my value conflicts to resolve in the way I endorse” and “I don’t always endorse the way my value conflicts resolve”.