12th July 2003, 1:50 PM
Two reasons: First off, they ate it once, didn't get all the nutrients, might as well eat it again. Second off, they don't seem to have the ability to learn from their own self-poisoning mistakes.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)