I find it helps to explicitly abandon the expectation that each person has a unitary and consistent will.
Bob the gambler wants to quit and wants to wager, sometimes sequentially and sometimes simultaneously.
The question isn't whether the whole Bob "means it", but which version of Bob we want to ally-with to war against the other, and what conditions or limitations we put on that assistance.
Bob the gambler wants to quit and wants to wager, sometimes sequentially and sometimes simultaneously.
The question isn't whether the whole Bob "means it", but which version of Bob we want to ally-with to war against the other, and what conditions or limitations we put on that assistance.