Originally Posted by
Watcher 
I believe the practice of reminding your beast of what it wants is to avoid falling complacent. When you get to the point that you can easily recognize and control the AV, it gets easy so to speak, like second nature. So by tempting your beast you can remind yourself how to exercise the control you already have over your AV so that it can't bite you in the ass when your not attentive to it.
I think beast tempting is a separate discussion from long term dependency on a program, but maybe not. My 2 cents on this topic though is I have no need to artificially manufacture conditions that might tempt my beast, life in American society seems to do a fine job of that with no help from me.