Hunger drives man. Hunger comes from the union of will and necessity. Necessity, however, poses no limitation to willed striving.
There is no clear divide between hunger and sloth, between necessity and vanity. For the one who has succumbed to megalomania, vanity is neccesity; limits are only for the weak, for the slave, for the dominated. But indulgence, taken to excess, leads to degeneration.
Excess exposes the human body to diesase. Decadence lead empires to decay. And arrogance chains the individual intellect to ignorance. The problem of will and necessity is infinitely problematic once the individual exercises rationality to justify a pursuit of excess as an integral satiation of necessity.
The individual rationality legitimates sloth and greed, because, at heart, it is the grandest art of dissimulation - the lie that deceives even the deceiver.
