snake eyes- if you'd watched the prestige then you'd know never to reveal how a trick is done. When you perform a trick everyone thinks you're a magic. Once people know how it works you go back to being a normal guy and the magic is gone.

phil- spot on when I first learnt it I remembered the patterns. Now I just freestyle and thus my language flows naturally. Plus Ross Jeffreys always looks like he's about to cream his pants as he's saying it that's why he looks creepy.

as far as morals go I'll quote Buddha "it is your intentions that make something good or bad not the action" weather using nlp or cocky funny your intention is the same just different technology. bow or gun it's still murder.