Some desires (e.g., a desire to drink a saucer of mud, a desire to drink a can of paint, a disposition to turn on radios whenever they are off) clearly do not generate any practical reasons

A related objection consists in the complaint that agents can have desires that clearly do not generate any practical reasons because they are for worthless objects. Prominent examples in the literature include a desire to drink a saucer of mud or a can of paint, and a disposition to turn on radios whenever they are off. As noted in section 3.1.3, these examples can’t provide direct counterexamples to any sort of reasons internalism, because reasons internalism itself places only a necessary con