Jeffrey Perren

Incompetence isn't just an inconvenience. It's (usually) the result of some gross immorality; often a long-standing policy of refusing to exert the effort to do something right. I'm not referring here to some occasional mistake, however bad the effect. What I mean is the habitual, 'just didn't want to think about it,' 'failure to do what can be reasonably expected' sorts of actions caused by what the Greeks referred to as akrasia (literally, "bad mixture," the Greek term for the character flaw of incontinence or weakness of the will, the condition in which an agent is unwilling to perform actions that are known to be right).