If you don’t want to be tempted or risk the possibility (Probability?) of succumbing to temptation, just make a point of avoiding that temptation altogether. Nothing too nuanced or complicated about this observation. If you don’t stray into the lion’s den, you don’t run the risk of being devoured by the lion. If you make a point of staying a safe distance away from the wolves’ lair, you probably don’t have to worry about becoming the wolfpack’s next supper. If you don’t wander into the whorehouse down the street, you probably don’t have to be concerned about bringing syphilis home with you as a surprise present for your wife. If you don’t meander aimlessly into the nearest Kwik Trip store when the Powerball jackpot sits at half a billion dollars, you won’t have to rationalize later why you spent fifty dollars on a whole shitload of suckerfish lottery tickets. And so on and so on and so on. The exact same principle applies with any ill-advised temptation.
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