Responsa for Beitzah 59:7

They responded:"Why do you ask this, it is unknowable!" (Judges 13:18) "Leave Israel alone, it is better that they sin without intention than with." (Beitzah 30a:9) "But put a knife into your jaw if you are given to appetite." (Proverbs 23:2)³Perhaps a play on the double meaning of 'baal nefesh', a man with appetite or master of a soul. In the second, positive, sense, it would imply that a pious person should refrain from such food - it is used in this sense in the Talmud Chullin 6a:2 .

They responded: My child! You were right to ask this. It is written in the Torah and repeated by the prophets. Even though this transgression is grave, they have repeated it over and over until they think it is permitted⁴Cf. Yoma 86b.13. Leave Israel alone, it is better that they sin without intention than with⁵Beitzah 30a.9.