This world is like a basket of rotting fruit. The longer it sits the worse it gets. The corruption originated with one tiny spore about 6000 years ago, and it has since spread to the entire basket. The power of association, coupled with the inherent disposition of fruit to rot, has tainted pieces of every size, shape and color. Contiguous pieces of fruit infect each other at each tangent of contact at an alarming rate. Even the ones that look good on the outside have some secluded pocket of spawning putrefaction. (These are often referred to by other fruit as "hypocrites") It practically requires a miracle to find a whole piece of fruit that's not infested. Fortunately there is an operation that can remedy a fruit's degraded condition. It's not very popular because it involves paring and pealing off part of the fruit. The fruit naturally does not enjoy this experience, even though it rescues it from inevitable and complete disintegration. The following step in this saving operation more than atones for the previous suffering of the fruit however. Sugar is added, sweetening the disposition of the fruit. It is then preserved, and is no longer capable of decay unless it vacates its protective casing. Anyway...that's as far as I'll take this analogy. Afterall, no analogy is perfect. :)  ¶ 10:18 PM