Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

The Garden of Eden

Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry the burden of original sin.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.