day no. 15,092: the besetting sin of younger men

Titus 2:6
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

Young men need self-control. They are passionate and powerful and without self-control, they have the ability to dominate and destroy the world around them. They can impose their will upon the rest of the world through their youthful resilience and strength. If they are not under the submission of any outside control which leads them to impose upon themselves certain restrictions, they will unleash a fury of havoc on the world around them.

Young men lack a sense of proportion. Without self-control, they do not resist their urges by category or by intensity.  Self-control eliminates certain categories of activity altogether and determines what level to crank the volume on categories which contain permissible activities.

Without self-control, young men do not stop themselves from doing wrong.
Without self-control, even when doing well, they often go too far or too soon.

In other words, they are good at being bad or they do what good they do badly.