A closer look
Willpower is not a character trait but rather a finite mental resource that gets aggressively drained every single time you make a decision, eventually turning you into an impulsive snack-devouring goblin by sunset; studies show that judges are significantly less likely to grant parole right before their lunch break, proving that even the justice system operates entirely on whether or not the brain has enough glucose left to care about other humans, a phenomenon called ego depletion which means that resisting the urge to yell at your boss all morning leaves you with absolutely zero mental fortitude to resist buying a fifty-dollar candle online at midnight, so whenever society tries to shame you for lacking discipline gently remind them that your executive function simply ran out of battery at around two in the afternoon and you are now biologically operating on pure instinct
