The Larry David defense: Art is a mirror to life. Attempts to legislate art, as if humanity could be improved by so much fluoride in the water: Doomed to reveal unintended consequences. The gremlin will allegedly be bigger than the wish.

Nah. See what Gabe says:

...neuroscientists at Harvard, Berkeley, and UW Madison, have noticed that attitudes of compassion and kindness have brain blood flow patterns and EEG patterns that are almost identical to patterns evinced by those holding mindstates of "courage" and "fearlessness"...