 Now actions are the products of choice, and often enough of deliberation; when you deliberate, you take the outcome of deliberation to settle what you are going to do. (If you did not, you would merely be attempting to predict what you are going to do, in just the way you might attempt to predict the actions of other people.) Even when deliberation is absent, choice involves assessment, and the assessment, whether deliberative or not, determines you to act only if you approve of the action; therefore, actions aspire to be active, where that means that you approve of what you do, and further, that if you understood what the motivational inputs to that deliberative runup to the action really were, you would continue to approve (Katsafanas 2013, ch. 5).   That last demand covers all of those inputs, and not just the official ones (as when you claim to be weighing the pros and cons of a request, but are also responsive to the attractiveness, social class, or gender of the one making it). 