My question is this: if you try committing a sin but fail to do so, yet you tell yourself to not do that again and become more careful after that, how bad was the sin?
Why does it matter “how bad was the sin’”? If you think you may have committed a sin, and it seems like here the person definitely had the intention to commit the sin, then you sinned. Period. Confess it.
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