 A common view distinguishes principles for evaluating choices from principles for evaluating sequences of choices. The principle of utility maximization evaluates an agent’s choice as a resolution of a decision problem only if the agent has direct control of each option in the decision problem, that is, only if the agent can at will immediately adopt any option in the decision problem. The principle does not evaluate an agent’s sequence of multiple choices because the agent does not have direct control of such a sequence. She realizes a sequence of multiple choices only by making each choice in the sequence at the time for it; she cannot at will immediately realize the entire sequence. Rationality evaluates an option in an agent’s direct control by comparing it with alternatives but evaluates a sequence in an agent’s indirect control by evaluating the directly controlled options in the sequence; a sequence of choices is rational if the choices in the sequence are rational. Adopting this common method of evaluating sequences of choices fends off objections to causal decision theory that assume rival methods.