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This is nonsense. I have a desire for ice cream, but also a desire to stick to my diet and lose weight. Oh no, my desire to stick to my diet is preventing my from achieving my desire for ice cream, it must be a bias!
If they conflict, one or the other is currently a 'bias'. You get to decide which one you like more.
Is eating ice-cream more important than your desire to stay healthy? You must overcome your desire to stay healthy.
Is staying healthy more important than eating ice-cream? Then you must overcome the desire to eat ice-cream.
'bias' is a fuzzy category referring to the corner of the conflict*value space where value is low and conflict with other values is high. Stretched all the way over to ice-cream and health, it starts to lose meaning. Just talk about which one you want to overcome.
That's really not how I would understand a bias. I would think of a bias as a feature of your psychology that distorts your decision-making process away from the rational; that is, optimal pursuit of your goals. The planning fallacy is a bias, having conflicting goals is just a feature of my utility function.