Habits are not blunt reflexes
As philosopher John Dewey points out, habits are intelligently modified to the context because we see the environment in which habits have been encouraged in light of the vast habitual responses we can make to it.
Habits are then not blunt reflexes but a wellspring of possible responses to our environment.
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