addictiveness as morality

the postmodern sentiment of self as centre discards the moral notion of harm to self, so long as the self is gratified, and by extrapolation, harm to others. after all, in a closed system, self and other are negotiated in terms of win-lose.

when morality is thus subjectively defined, only addictiveness qualifies as a compass, since it diminishes one's further capacity for satisfaction (the more addicted, the less pleasure one derives from the same quantum). paradoxially, one does oneself wrong when self-serving addiction prevents the very gratification one seeks.