"I wouldn't stop you if -"

Wait what.

Brain probe.

"I... apparently would want to stop you if you wanted to run off and have sex with somebody else instead, unless it was with somebody I already knew and then I might have different opinions depending on my relationship to them?  To be extremely super clear I remember the explicit conversation we had yesterday about that exact topic where it was explicitly said we not committing to other stuff like that by deciding to have sex."

"I wouldn't stop you if -"

Wait what.

Brain probe.

"I... apparently would want to stop you if you wanted to run off and have sex with somebody else instead, unless it was with somebody I already knew and then I might have different opinions depending on my relationship to them?  To be extremely super clear I remember the explicit conversation we had yesterday about that exact topic where it was explicitly said we were not committing to other stuff like that by deciding to have sex."

If they always follow great violence with sex, that could, like, possibly be a useful factor in understanding Chelish society.  Still, he shouldn't rush to conclude that a previously unobserved social equilibrium can't have any useful functions for the people who equilibrated with it.

"I wouldn't stop you if -"

Wait what.

Brain probe.

"I... apparently would want to stop you if you wanted to run off and have sex with somebody else instead, unless it was with somebody I already knew and then I might have different opinions depending on my relationship to them?  To be extremely super clear I remember the explicit conversation we had yesterday about that exact topic where it was explicitly said we were not committing to other stuff like that by deciding to have sex."

If they always follow violence with sex, that could, like, possibly be an important factor in understanding Chelish society.  Still, he shouldn't rush to conclude that a previously unobserved social equilibrium can't have any useful functions for the people who equilibrated with it.

"I wouldn't stop you if -"

Wait what.

Brain probe.

"I... apparently would want to stop you if you wanted to run off and have sex with somebody else instead, unless it was with somebody I already knew and then I might have different opinions depending on my relationship to them?  To be extremely super clear I remember the explicit conversation we had yesterday about that exact topic where it was explicitly said we were not committing to other stuff like that by deciding to have sex."