"You can just ask me to review the reports, you know."
"But yes, or rather, my suspicion is that not many sadists in dath ilan know what they are and Civilization tries to prevent us from finding out, because dath ilan does not have masochists. If you've reviewed the transcript of my lecture on evolutionary theory as the basis of biological order, the notion of enjoying pain, the signal of damage to the body, is not something you'd expect to see; Carissa, if I was interpreting her correctly, thought masochism might have evolved in a situation where women are continuously - not having a great time but could maybe do better by bonding with their captors. I'd put even money on it being something a god put in instead. But the fact that something like that even exists here - that I, a sadist, am complemented here by a perfect complement to my own desires that shouldn't exist - is part of why I suspect that I'm not in a universe that I matched up to at random."
