I think that is also why I love Talmudic tradition, its constant back and forth of proposition, and question, and counter-question, which, in its truest heart of hearts, does not really desire end-points, though it delights endlessly in seeking them.
It is, after all, often in coming to terms with excessive external limitations in society that individuals retreat into themselves, pretending to themselves that they do not really desire the worldly goods or pleasures they have been denied.
We may not really desire to take care of those who cannot pay and we do not really desire to take care of a ventilator-dependent patient for weeks on end, but Kant places duty at the center of a moral life.
I didn't really desire to be a mother.
"I don't really desire to be a quote-unquote Jewish band," Mr. Solomon said.
The LAPD "does not really have a desire to be responsive to the community but rather make a show of engaging in a public process," Melanie Ochoa, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said at Tuesday's meeting.
Yes, the airstrikes would serve no actual purpose, and yes, carrying them out would probably be the stupidest decision taken by any government since about 2003 – but when the political consensus is that we should go and do the stupidest possible thing at once, pointing out how stupid it is doesn't really have the desired effect.
"He doesn't really have any desire to write, but he knows he should.
Well, she is a girl who doesn't really understand her desires yet and shouts no as she flees from herself and her lover.
They did not really understand his desire to study English - "My mum said, 'You speak it, why do you want to do it at university?'" - but by then Nagra, on a whim, had bought a slim volume by William Blake and become fascinated by poetry.
The last piece of the puzzle for many conservationists is to hold politicians more accountable for their anti-environmental votes, which the big groups believe do not really reflect the desires of the office-holders' constituents.
