In addition to the stickiness of institutional beliefs, I would add that individually agents cannot decide against their own objective functions (except merely verbally). In the case of humans, we cannot decide what qualities our phenomenal experience will have; it is a fact of the matter rather than an opinion that suffering is undesirable for oneself, etc.. One can verbally pronounce that “I don’t care about my suffering”, but the phenomenal experience of badness will in fact remain.
In addition to the stickiness of institutional beliefs, I would add that individually agents cannot decide against their own objective functions (except merely verbally). In the case of humans, we cannot decide what qualities our phenomenal experience will have; it is a fact of the matter rather than an opinion that suffering is undesirable for oneself, etc.. One can verbally pronounce that “I don’t care about my suffering”, but the phenomenal experience of badness will in fact remain.