You make a valiant effort here, but this is a little bit like saying that we should be grateful for the fact that rotten meat stinks, because it helps to distinguish it from fresh. It’s still rotten meat. It’s better to just not keep that kind of thing around.

I’ve heard this sort of thinking before. And I did keep an eye out for what movies/books a guy had in his place, and it usually helped me get a better sense of who he was. However, this isn’t that.