 Part of what is interesting about this case is that, even though most people would gladly drink the toxin for a million dollars, getting the million dollars is not that easy. This is because one does not get the million dollars for drinking the toxin. Indeed, one does not get anything but a day of illness for drinking the toxin. As Kavka explains, by the time the toxin is to be consumed, one either already has the million in one’s account or not; and drinking the toxin will not get one any (additional) funds. Assuming one has no desire to be ill for nothing, drinking the toxin seems to involve acting counter-preferentially—and this is, if not impossible, at least no easy feat. So, given a clear understanding of the situation, one is likely to find it difficult, if not impossible, to form the intention to drink the toxin. Presumably, one cannot form the intention to drink the toxin if one is confident that one will not drink it. If only one could somehow rely on the cooperation of one’s future self, one could then genuinely form the intention to drink the toxin and thus get the million—a wonderful result from the perspective of both one’s current and one’s future self. But, alas, one’s future self will, it seems, have no reason to drink the toxin when the time for doing so arrives.