Telling him that might shock him into realising the destructive path he's going down.

Unconventional computing and the self-organising materials it points to — programmed to 'grow' structures the way plants or crystals do — suggest a less destructive path forward.

Culture changes and people shift, but the problems remain the same: the curse of sin weaving its destructive path through the human heart and through the cosmos.

He lures her to him by leaving a destructive path for her to follow.