Oh, and your recycling analogy is flawed because recycling is hardly likely to be abused the way indoctrination can and often is.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'