 And third and finally for now, certain of our qualms about delegating our practical reasoning to others are accounted for. If practical thought is, as Brewer puts it, ‘a seamless part of the activity’ of, say, friendship, or conducting a conversation, or making one’s way through philosophy, or just living one’s life, then to contract out one’s deliberation and decisions to third parties – even expert third parties – is to forego the valuable activity itself.