User blog comment:CoolCat123450/Alpha/@comment-4867780-20141010083530

"Unless the effect was initiated by an individual's own power... who may have thought that Alfred's nuclear carpet bombing of someone else's home was going a bit too far" ^ ^;

Ah, the human tendency to cling to our past choices and current self, no matter how obviously wrong, and think it was just "that one event", and everything else is totally fine.