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"We - don't have that, no, because anyone can go anywhere with a quarter day's cost of labor.  A few generations of everybody mating with everybody all over the planet and I guess things just blended together.  People probably cared at all about preserving variety of appearance, back when that variety was dying out, it's just, there's so many other things to select on, when you try to decide who you're going to have kids with... and it's so much not a place where it'd be Governance's place to solve the collective problem by telling people they needed to start doing assortative mating on appearance instead of mating with who they wanted.  Hugely unacceptable costs, not much of a reward.  Even in dath ilan we can't get all the public goods at once."

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"We - don't have that, no, because anyone can go anywhere with a quarter day's cost of labor.  A few generations of everybody mating with everybody all over the planet and I guess things just blended together.  People probably cared at all about preserving variety of appearance, back when that variety was dying out, it's just, there's so many other things to select on, when you try to decide who you're going to have kids with... and it's so much not a place where it'd be Governance's place to solve the collective problem by telling people they needed to start doing assortative mating on appearance instead.  Forbidden costs, not much of a reward.  Even in dath ilan we can't get all the public goods at once."

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"We - don't have that, no, because anyone can go anywhere with a quarter day's cost of labor.  Even if we started out with less travel, way back when - after a few generations of everybody mating with everybody all over the planet and I guess things just blended together.  People probably cared at all about preserving variety of appearance, back when that variety was dying out, it's just, there's so many other things to select on, when you try to decide who you're going to have kids with... and it's so much not a place where it'd be Governance's place to solve the collective problem by telling people they needed to start doing assortative mating on appearance instead.  Forbidden costs, not much of a reward.  Even in dath ilan we can't get all the public goods at once."

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"We - don't have that, no, because anyone can go anywhere with a quarter day's cost of labor.  Even if we started out with less travel, way back when - after a few generations of everybody mating with everybody all over the planet, I guess things just blended together.  People probably cared at all about preserving variety of appearance, back when that variety was dying out, it's just, there's so many other things to select on, when you try to decide who you're going to have kids with... and it's so much not a place where it'd be Governance's place to solve the collective problem by telling people they needed to start doing assortative mating on appearance instead.  Forbidden costs, not much of a reward.  Even in dath ilan we can't get all the public goods at once."

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"We - don't have that, no, because anyone can go anywhere with a quarter day's cost of labor.  Even if we started out with less travel, way back when - after a few generations of everybody mating with everybody all over the planet, I guess all the heritages just blended together.  People probably cared at all about preserving variety of appearance, back when that variety was dying out, it's just, there's so many other things to select on, when you try to decide who you're going to have kids with... and it's so much not a place where it'd be Governance's place to solve the collective problem by telling people they needed to start doing assortative mating on appearance instead.  Forbidden costs, not much of a reward.  Even in dath ilan we can't get all the public goods at once."

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"We - don't have that, no, because anyone can go anywhere with a quarter day's cost of labor.  Even if we started out with less travel, way back when - after a few generations of everybody mating with everybody all over the planet, I guess all the heritages just blended together.  People probably cared at all about preserving variety of appearance, back when that variety was dying out, it's just, there's so many other things to select on, when you try to decide who you're going to have kids with... and it's so much not a place where it'd be Governance's place to solve the collective problem by telling people they needed to start doing assortative mating on appearance instead.  Forbidden costs, not much of a reward.  Even in dath ilan we can't get all the public goods at once."

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"We - don't have that, no, because anyone can go anywhere with a quarter day's cost of labor.  Even if we started out with less travel, way back when - after a few generations of everybody mating with everybody all over the planet, I guess all the heritages just blended together.  People probably cared at all about preserving variety of appearance, back when that variety was dying out, it's just, there's so many other things to select on, when you try to decide who you're going to have kids with... and it's so much not a place where it'd be Governance's place to solve the collective problem by telling people they needed to start doing assortative mating on appearance instead.  Forbidden costs, not much of a reward.  Even in dath ilan we can't get all the public goods at once."