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This seems wrong to me. That Toby should X does not imply that Toby does X, so determining what Toby should want does not settle whether Toby in fact wants it.
Toby does not seem to be making that claim, though perhaps implicitly so. (Much like it could be argued that "X" implies "I believe that X", it could be argued that "I did X" implies "I should have done X". But that fails on common usage, where "I did X but I should not have done X" is ordinary.)