I believe that the freedom of the creative artist to deal with whatever subject matter he chooses is paramount and that the finished product should be judged according to its merits or lack thereof.
Man, what a rebel!
You realize that technology is responsible for all this hub-bub. Thirty years ago they would have made the movie. It would have played in about ten art houses and vanished forever. The majority of people never even would have heard of it. The thing would have been as obscure as Mysteries of the Organism.
30 years ago 'Snakes on a Plane' would just play a few drive ins...