People are also free to stop taking opiates, alcohol, crack, or to stop gambling. Yet these things wreck unbelievable havoc on our society because a vast swath

People are also free to stop taking opiates, alcohol, crack, or to stop gambling. Yet these things wreck unbelievable havoc on our society because a vast swath of the human population is not psychologically, even biochemically, capable of stopping themselves from doing these things. Human agency has its limits because humans don’t have precise rational control over their own behavior. Otherwise we’d all eat sleep and exercise flawlessly for our entire lives… and we wouldn’t keep refreshing the front page of HN every 30 minutes.