I’m pretty sure I expressed my opinion on this topic precisely (“no, it’s not compatible”). It’s up to you how you choose to misunderstand it, I have no control over it.
spending their life complaining about how they would do this and that if only they didn’t have akrasia
Do you agree the quoted property differs from the property of “having akrasia” (which is the property we’re interested in); that one might have akrasia without spending one’s life complaining about it, and that one might spend one’s life complaining about akrasia without having (the stated amount of) akrasia (e.g. with the deliberate intent to evade obligations)? If this inaccuracy were fixed, would your original response retain all its rhetorical force?
(It’s worth keeping in mind that “akrasia” is more a problem description saying someone’s brain doesn’t produce the right output, and not an actual specific mechanism sitting there impeding an otherwise-functioning brain from doing its thing, but I don’t think that affects any of the reasoning here.)
I’m pretty sure I expressed my opinion on this topic precisely (“no, it’s not compatible”). It’s up to you how you choose to misunderstand it, I have no control over it.
Do you agree the quoted property differs from the property of “having akrasia” (which is the property we’re interested in); that one might have akrasia without spending one’s life complaining about it, and that one might spend one’s life complaining about akrasia without having (the stated amount of) akrasia (e.g. with the deliberate intent to evade obligations)? If this inaccuracy were fixed, would your original response retain all its rhetorical force?
(It’s worth keeping in mind that “akrasia” is more a problem description saying someone’s brain doesn’t produce the right output, and not an actual specific mechanism sitting there impeding an otherwise-functioning brain from doing its thing, but I don’t think that affects any of the reasoning here.)