Remote vs Proximate Occasions of Sin

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It is one thing to know a definition and get the gist of it, and it is another thing to truly understand something. Could someone/people knowledgable on this subject give some illustrative examples of a remote occasion of sin in contrast to a proximate?
What of a continuous proximate occasion vs one that occasionally becomes proximate? How/when does/can a remote become proximate?
Please help by providing realistic examples (as opposed to theoretical, almost-never-happens type examples, unless it is to illustrate something that truly is rare so it cannot be helped).
 
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It is one thing to know a definition and get the gist of it, and it is another thing to truly understand something. Could someone/people knowledgable on this subject give some illustrative examples of a remote occasion of sin in contrast to a proximate?
What of a continuous proximate occasion vs one that occasionally becomes proximate? How/when does/can a remote become proximate?
Please help by providing realistic examples (as opposed to theoretical, almost-never-happens type examples, unless it is to illustrate something that truly is rare so it cannot be helped).
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Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (excerpt)
207 Q. What do you mean by the near occasions of sin?
A. By the near occasions of sin I mean all the persons, places and things that may easily lead us into sin.

“Occasions.” There are many kinds of occasions of sin.
  • First, we have voluntary and necessary occasions, or those we can avoid and those we cannot avoid. For example: if a companion uses immodest conversation we can avoid that occasion, because we can keep away from him; but if the one who sins is a member of our own family, always living with us, we cannot so easily avoid that occasion.
  • Second, near and remote occasions. An occasion is said to be “near” when we usually fall into sin by it. For instance, if a man gets intoxicated almost every time he visits a certain place, then that place is a “near occasion” of sin for him; but if he gets intoxicated only once out of every fifty times or so that he goes there, then it is said to be a “remote occasion.”
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