"Carissa, I sincerely appreciate your efforts in this regard, may follow up on this later, and would right now like to follow the dath ilani custom of just completely not talking about this in the context of who stays employed by the project.  As in, we don't talk about this at all, until after everything has been settled, and this meeting has been adjourned, without that having ever been a consideration."

"If you think that's an absolutely terrible way to approach this issue, I'm open to having an extended meta-level digression about whether I'm being overly Good here or just Lawful, though I'd want to free Ione, Asmodia, or Meritxell to sit that one out if they wanted."

"Carissa, I sincerely appreciate your efforts in this regard, may follow up on this later, and would right now like to follow the dath ilani best practice of just completely not talking about this in the context of who stays employed by the project.  As in, we don't talk about this at all, until after everything has been settled, and this meeting has been adjourned, without that having ever been a consideration."

"If you think that's an absolutely terrible way to approach this issue, I'm open to having an extended meta-level digression about whether I'm being overly Good here or just Lawful, though I'd want to free Ione, Asmodia, or Meritxell to sit that one out if they wanted."

"Carissa, I deeply appreciate your efforts in this regard, may follow up on this later, and would right now like to follow the dath ilani best practice of just completely not talking about this in the context of who stays employed by the project.  As in, we don't talk about this at all, until after everything has been settled, and this meeting has been adjourned, without that having ever been a consideration."

"If you think that's an absolutely terrible way to approach this issue, I'm open to having an extended meta-level digression about whether I'm being overly Good here or just Lawful, though I'd want to free Ione, Asmodia, or Meritxell to sit that one out if they wanted."

"Carissa, I deeply appreciate your efforts in this regard, may follow up on this later, and would right now like to follow the dath ilani best practice of just completely not talking about this in the context of who stays employed by the project.  As in, we don't talk about this at all, until after everything has been settled, and this meeting has been adjourned, without that having ever been a consideration."

"If you think that's an absolutely terrible way to approach this issue, I'm open to having an extended meta-level digression about whether I'm being overly Good here or just Lawful, though I'd want to free Ione, Asmodia, or Meritxell to sit that one out if they wanted."