Objn 1. People capable of pleasures of the higher faculties sometimes choose lower pleasures.

Reply to 1: "[T]his is quite compatible with a full appreciation of the intrinsic superiority of the higher [pleasures]. Men often, from infirmity of character, make their election [i.e., choice] for the nearer good, though they know it to be the less valuable ..." (P 430a)

Objn 2. Some people who have become familiar with pleasures of the higher faculties "as they advance in years sink into indolence ..." (P 430a)

Reply to 2: They are no longer capable of the pleasures of the higher faculties.

"I do not believe that those who undergo this very common change, voluntarily chose the lower description of pleasures in preference to the higher. I believe that before they devote themselves exclusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed ..." (P 430ab)