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Vices sometimes deserve special treatment in order to not become curses. They can be assimilated, lived with, denied, among other options. So what to do about the vice of mooching?

I hypothesize that the riddle presented in Website: Haibane Renmei may hold the answer (when applied to the vice of being a mooch). The riddle is something like this.

Sinners do not know their own sin.
If you know your own sin, are you a sinner?

In other words, now I am aware of the existence of such a tendency, and know that I have once been involved with said tendency. It seems as though I can now avoid the appearance of mooching and the thing itself as well. With a relatively short amount of practice, the new trait of avoidance of this vice (and the consequent increase in whatever corresponding virtue exists) will become assimilated in me.