I posed it as a question to you, but I will declare in the affirmative that, for me, intent is a factor in these discussions, as well as in all spiritual "exercises." With that said, I will probably be the last among us to force anybody to do anything, good or ill, and I have walked through the Haight-Ashbury district when, because I was too young when they were there, it had been abandoned by the hippies, who flocked there as a sort of American site of pilgrimage, and the only unfortunates who remained were the heroin addicts who couldn't afford to get out of town. It was a cultural and spiritual wasteland, and, to me, a testament to the inherent dangers in some kinds of absolute hedonism, but that might have been largely a private observation, for me to both learn and apply, in the great classroom of life.