1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People.[…], London: John Macrone,[…], OCLC 912950347, chapter II:

Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reforms put in place by Mikhail Gorbachev, says he too is amazed at the government's lethargy.

First, I contend that the process through which people become involved in unethical behavior (and by extension wrongful behavior) often consists of a stream of linked decisions, with the early decisions in a decision stream being linked to subsequent decisions by the consequences that they produce.

Just make sure he's not a transfan. You know about them, right? Make sure if he's interested, that he's interested in who you are, not what you are.