 It can seem that desires can be too shallow in our psychology to ground reasons. Christine Korsgaard has suggested that normativity might instead be grounded in our “practical identity” – in features of ourselves that we value (1996). Our practical identity is to be understood as a matter of attitudes we take to ourselves and our lives, but it is something more central to our sense of ourselves than mere desire. On Korsgaard’s account, a parent who values parenthood thereby has reasons to act as parents are meant to act. Some people have practical identities that are regrettable, of course, such as the practical identity of a gangster. But, Korsgaard argues, a person’s practical identity grounds reasons for her only if it is compatible with the practical identities of everyone else.