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Trying to act contrary to ones nature without even one single slip-up would be pretty difficult, don't you think? I imagine that men in his position probably really do want to change -- at least, I reckon a lot of them do. But how realistic is it to expect that they'll succeed over the long haul?
No, I think that in times of stress, a person like this will be very vulnerable to his old temptation -- especially if everyone around him has sent him to Coventry and he doesn't know how else to console himself.
We have to jettison the expectation that such a person can change, as though he were just a mildly wayward young fellow who had swiped a watch or sold some 'shrooms, or something.
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