Let us turn to the next set of sins in Chapter 8: “Gluttony – Food, Drinks and Drugs”.

What makes the “sins of gluttony” possible?  Pleasurable substances plus the psychology (or neurophysiology) of addiction make good candidates for “symptoms”.

What puts the “the sins of gluttony” into context?  The “crimes” of obesity, intoxication, drunkenness and addiction made good candidates for “crimes”.

Again, we find opportunity to expand the concept of “crime”.  Menninger limited “crime” to the jurisdiction of the state.  “Crime” could also include the punishing natural consequences of the sin.  Thus, the word “crime” might be replaced by a more general term, such as law^nature or law^essential.

Similarly, Menninger’s idea of “symptom” was “something that would be subject to improvement by a psychoanalyst or mental health worker”.  We can expand this concept by substituting the word “disposition” for “symptom”.

The horizontal axis of “law^essential(sin(disposition))” would be, for this set of sins, “the punishing consequences by both nature and state(sins of gluttony(the psychology or neurophysiology of pleasurable substances)).