A sense of duty imprisons you.

Everyone's work is equally important.

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force

All things are delicately interconnected.

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.