"That seems probably right. I just - it sounds like you're thinking about goverments as things that mostly maintain their power by making it too hard for people to correctly overthrow them, when my impression is that actually most people correctly don't want to overthrow them, and I can name six countries where I think that's not true so I don't think I'm just incapable of recognizing it when I see it, and it's not how I see Cheliax. Or Osirion, for that matter. Though I do think stealing all their women would be incredibly satisfying and we should do it."

"That seems probably right. I just - it sounds like you're thinking about goverments as things that mostly maintain their power by making it too hard for people to correctly overthrow them, when my impression is that actually most people correctly don't want to overthrow them, and I can name six countries where I think that's not true so I don't think I'm just incapable of recognizing it when I see it, and it's not how I see Cheliax. Or Osirion, for that matter. Though I do think stealing all their women would be incredibly satisfying and we should do it."