Attack of the Bad

In Book VII of Ethics, Aristotle refers to the proverb, “when water chokes someone, what should he drink?” (114a, line 36). So of course I thought about what I do because this has happened several times, and I always just drink more water. But how does this connect to the unrestrained person that the proverb is being related to?
In this section Aristotle says that people who act from conviction and choice are better off than those who act through unrestraint. He backs this up by saying, “since he [the person who acts from conviction and choice] could be more easily cured by being persuaded otherwise, while the unrestrained person is subject to the proverb” (lines 34-35). What I take from this is that the unrestrained person either cannot be changed by persuasion or that it would take a lot of it to do the trick.
The unrestrained person “chokes” when they do something bad or have a vice, which is the water. Then someone tries to persuade them that what they are doing is bad, so they do something else instead that is also bad. I got this from section 114b, line1 which says, “as it is, even when he is persuaded, he nevertheless does something else.”
So what should the man choking drink? From this section of Ethics it sounds like no matter what the unrestrained person drinks, it will continue to choke him because he chooses the bad.

-Rachel Tidwell