 Such descriptions are well suited to explicit deliberation concurrent or continuous with the action, and they are well suited to means-ends arguments about what to do. This view of deliberation was embedded in a German law that led Adolf Reinach (1912/1913 [1989: 279]) to identify some “remarkable antinomies” in our understanding of deliberation, one of which is that meritorious actions count as less meritorious when done without any deliberation or when done only after long deliberation. If the agent takes no time to deliberate, the agent acts impetuously; if the agent takes too much time in deliberating, the agent is insufficiently attuned to what is right to do in certain kinds of circumstances. However, if deliberation is viewed less as an occurrent rational calculation, Reinach’s paradoxical conclusion can be avoided.