Addictions

My own personal version of the Pareto Rule is that in matters of human behavior it is often the case that extra effort after some initial mental and/or physical attention results in ever escalating negative results.

The results don’t just plateau off with extra effort, as the Pareto Rule would have it. They head south into negative territory.

In its extreme form this hypothesis covers addictions.

Addictions are the brain’s attempt to force it’s host moron into addressing some grievous psychological harm.

In these instances, if the horse doesn’t drink the water then it tends to flog itself to death.