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Consumerist desires are essentially insatiable, because they are desires for things we do not really need: "You see, it's not thirst; it's disease".
Cognitive desires, for example, the desire to know, are desires for that which is currently not present to the agent.
A competing way of thinking about desires holds that some or all desires are desires for objects, not states of affairs.
On the other hand, other second-order desires that a person has are desires for effective first-order desires, desires that would comprise her will, and would thereby be effective in moving her all the way to action.
Second-order desires are desires regarding one's first-order desires, and first-order desires are desires for ordinary (non-conative) things such as snacks or the trouncing of the New York Yankees.
If this is so, then there is a strong case to be made that desires which are universal, or near-universal, among human beings are desires for which satisfaction is possible.
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