So, while repeated ruinous behavior is foolish, hurtful, and inexcusable, it shouldn’t be shocking. It shouldn’t surprise us when fallen people keep falling down, and broken people keep breaking things. We should expect sinners to sin. Hell, even Saint Paul lamented that the things he knew he shouldn’t do, he kept on doing (see Romans 7). None of this, by the way, is an excuse for doing destructive stuff. But it does explain why we foolishly keep on doing destructive stuff. Again and again and again.
