Daniel Wigton on Nostr: I am not.... For the most part. We should rightly fear sinful ideation. "What would ...
I am not.... For the most part. We should rightly fear sinful ideation. "What would it be like to engage in immoral behavior X?" Evaluating the consequences is fine and encouraged, trying to catch how it would feel is dangerous. That isn't to say there aren't corner cases where is can be a good, evaluating criminal psychology etc. but for normal people (anyone not trying to solve a specific related problem)it can just lead to an unhealthy fascination with sin.
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