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Carissa is, completely insanely, tempted to casually nod her head, even though that's not even at all - lots of countries do still have governments and don't enforce heresy laws and it's clearly one of those they're pretending at being -

"I think you are imagining that this equilibrium is extremely fragile and that common knowledge we're in it is also disallowed? But actually it's extremely sticky. Overthrowing governments is really really hard and usually the thing that results when you overthrow a government is much worse. The consequences of overthrowing the Chelish government would be bad ones. So you don't have to - pretend the government is perfect - you just have to have a critical mass of people who don't believe that overthrowing it would produce something better, especially not since the Chelish government is possible to improve in normal ways by, like, suggesting improvements."

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Carissa is, completely insanely, tempted to casually nod her head, even though that's not even at all - lots of countries do still have governments and don't enforce heresy laws and it's clearly one of those they're pretending at being -

"I think you are imagining that this equilibrium is extremely fragile and that admitting we're in it is also disallowed? But actually it's extremely sticky. Overthrowing governments is really really hard and usually the thing that results when you overthrow a government is much worse. The consequences of overthrowing the Chelish government would be bad ones. So you don't have to - pretend the government is perfect - you just have to have a critical mass of people who don't believe that overthrowing it would produce something better, especially not since the Chelish government is possible to improve in normal ways by, like, suggesting improvements."