No, because if someone considers themselves a rasha might refrain from doing teshuva. There is a mashel of the Dubner Magid, where one saw a poor man and wanted to make some fun of him. He told him come to my hotel and eat and drink and enjoy yourself to your hearts content. Being there a week or so, the owner comes and asks him to pay up. He has to give up the backpack he has and goes out saddened. The man starts laughing at him and tells him, now you might as well go back and eat and drink as you have nothing to lose anymore. The yetzer hara has us enjoy ourselves in this world and when we are full sins, he says, now there is no help anymore for you, teshuva does not work, and you might as well do whatever you want.
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