  (I might add that it also seems doubtful that irresistible psychic  forces kept you on the couch watching TV while those papers were  waiting.) As for the “inverted-commas” case, this too  surely happens: people do sometimes pay lip service to conventional  standards which they themselves do not really accept. But again, it  seems highly doubtful that this is true of all seeming cases of  weak-willed action. It seems depressingly possible to select and  implement one course of action while genuinely believing  that it is an overall worse choice than some other option open to  you.