[Anders shrugs - a little awkwardly with the bowl in his hands, shifting it to better accommodate the flame without his coat accommodating the flame as well. He appreciates the apparent total lack of concern about the magic; a good guess, then, that a man opposed to senseless abuse would be sensible about magic. That Venn diagram is usually a circle, but sometimes people are unpleasantly surprising.

But. A good question.]

I tend not to believe anything that insists so strongly on an "only way." Any man who claims his solution is the only one is either desperate or insecure, or both. Or just mad.

Or a talking animal.