Back in 1966, a great philosopher observed that "Kicks just keep getting harder to find" as a fact of human nature. People don't fall into evil all at once, but over time, staring with small steps that eventually turn into leaps.
Ernest Hemingway made a similar observation about money that also applies broadly to human nature. From his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises we we read:
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
"Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
Dams of all sorts break the same way, with gradual leaks that eventually break in what appears to be a single, catastrophic collapse.
If you don't start down a dark road, you won't reach it's bitter end. But human nature too often finds the dark road irresistible, and some are lured into things they would have never imagined if they hadn't dabbled with evil in the first place. Satan is the author of lies and the thief of souls, and these people have chosen evil.
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