The act of eating is a service.

[Shin'Ar]

Perception is key here.

Human perception based upon stimuli. Tradition, religion, emotion, popularity, etc.

Look at it this way,

many people would not be bothered by the killing of a flesh eating tiger, but if you showed them a cute little tiger cub being killed they would be emotionally disturbed. The Bambi syndrome.

The more we become either sensitized or desensitized to a matter the more or less it becomes an issue.

the point Monica is making is that it should be the sensitization that rules the decision.

It should be the consideration of the actual consequences. Emotion creates atmosphere and environment. But when we make decisions based upon emotion alone, the consequences remain the same whether we like them or not.

if you burn down a house because you didn't like the way it ruined the look of your neighborhood, and someone died in that fire, whether or not you agreed with the decision doesn't change the fact that someone died because of that choice.

It is the substance of our buildings that matter and how they affect our neighbors, more than the glamor of the architecture.