 It’s worth noting that this sort of question about prudential cases arises in the rational choice literature. The analogous question concerns whether rationality requires one to choose suboptimal courses of action by predicating one’s present behavior on what will seem most attractive to one at a later time (see McClennen 1990: ch. 8–9; Gauthier 1994). The subsequent literature suggests that intuitions about prudential cases are at least mixed.