“But modern sinners demand that modern science do just that; they claim as their right freedom from consequences, the suspension of the cause-effect principle when it interferes with their desires.” (Rodney Turner, Book of Mormon Symposium Series, Jacob - WofM, edited by PR Cheesman, MS Nyman, and CD Tate, Jr., 1988, p. 278)
Hugh Nibley
“The classic example of this we have with us now. We never knew such a perfect case [of] the sorrowing of the damned. Sorrow for their sins? [for] what they have done?…No, but ’because the Lord would not always suffer them to take happiness in sin.‘ What’s the attitude of people with AIDS? They sorrow, they suffer, they want a cure. We have to do something. They have to be saved, but never do they show any inclination to repent of what brought the thing on. If we only had the cure, then they could continue in their own ways and feel happy about it. They sort of resent being unable to do that…They sorrow, but it’s the sorrow of the damned and they sorrow just for one reason—that they can‘t go on doing the very thing that’s brought them into this terrible path. If they had a chance, they’d go right on doing it forever. The Lord must call a halt here sometime. So now he’s going to do it.” (Teachings From the Book of Mormon, Lecture 104, p. 197)