Does anyone actually do things for the sake of having always done them? Brushing my teeth is annoying. I would gladly stop doing it if there were no consequenc

Does anyone actually do things for the sake of having always done them? Brushing my teeth is annoying. I would gladly stop doing it if there were no consequences. Tooth brushing is actually a terrible example of choosing the action with the highest utility because there is no such thing as brushing to gain. You're only preventing a loss. Compare this to running. If you never run, you will slowly lose your capacity to run. So running sometimes prevents the loss. But if you run beyond that you, you actually gain capacity to run. (Asymptotically, of course.) It's hard to empirically place the baseline for running capacity, but it should be obvious from watching Olympic sprinters and old, fat people that there is positive and negative swing to it.