There are people for whom controlling bad habits like overindulgence in sex, and food, is completely no problem
Ding ding! Exactly! There are people who have bad habits but are able to control them. That does NOT mean that "there is no temptation to yield to" as you claim. It means that they are tempted - but their intellect is in charge, and says "sure I want to drink, smoke and get laid all the time - but I will choose to do something different, because I don't like where those activities will take me."
Thank you for proving my point.
Who said anything about changing goals?
You did. They take their bad habits and change their goals, so they can control their temptations. Again, that is not "losing the taste for the thing that is a temptation." It is making a conscious decision to not give in to the temptation.
I bet you don’t even know why you object to God, or why you lie about what’s written in the bible?
Wow. You lost that argument so badly now you are bringing it up in other threads?
The only one lying about the Bible here is you. That's been demonstrated dozens of times already.
Now how about staying on topic? You are confusing knowledge with social mores, and you are confusing both of those with basic drives. They are not the same. The temptations you talk about above (overindulgence in food for example) is a basic drive. Evolution drives us to put on fat for lean times, even when there are no more lean times. So we are TEMPTED to eat too much.
As you pointed out above, people can control those temptations by using their intellect to override those temptations. They use their knowledge that eating too much can make you fat and unhealthy, and they use that knowledge to diet and exercise to keep themselves healthy.
There is a third issue which is social mores. People may have additional reasons to eat too much or too little. Perhaps they are in a society that promulgates guys watching sports and drinking together. So they get a circle of friends who go to a bar every Friday night to drink and eat nachos. If they do this they might get fat, because social mores interfere with the above process.
Or perhaps the social mores say that women have to be not fat to be attractive. That can help with the above issue. Or perhaps it tells women that they have to be super skinny to be attractive at all; they may then not eat enough to stay healthy or even become bulimic. That's a potentially negative effect.
Three different issues.