 Aristotle agrees that what seems good to us is determined by our character, and that we aim at what we believe is good. There are cases of akrasia, or “weakness of will”, where a person’s beliefs about what is good and their desires conflict, and they do what they believe is bad in order to gratify their desires (NE 7.3). But when a person’s beliefs and desires are in harmony—as in the case of a thoroughly virtuous or vicious person—their actions will follow from their beliefs about and desires for what seems to be good, plus their beliefs about what means will achieve that apparent good. So in the case of the vicious and willing murderer, while he may be able to refrain from murder, he will not do so, given who he is. He will not choose to go against what his beliefs and desires have set before him as good. For Aristotle, choice is the final step of a process of deliberation, in which we work through the possible means to achieve our end, until we hit upon the one that we think will work best to get us what we wish to achieve, whereupon we choose that means and act (NE 3.3).