"Nobody knows.  I know that low-ranked Keepers have sworn thirteen million oaths over the last forty years, and broken twenty-three of those, and that most but not all of those cases were due to insanity.  I don't know what happened to them, and don't see a simple way of deducing what the ethical theory of that would be.  But it would not involve threats, punishments, attempts to scare anybody off doing it again.  If what happens to them is that they get put directly into cryonic suspension so they can't do it again and eventually the Future decides what to do with them, I think we wouldn't be told about it, exactly so that it didn't sound like a threat."

"The Abaddon thing - is sort of sad, you know?  People shouldn't think that's needed.  Shouldn't think that's how oaths work."

"I don't seem to know, now that you ask that.  I know that low-ranked Keepers have sworn thirteen million oaths over the last forty years, and broken twenty-three of those, and that most but not all of those cases were due to insanity.  I don't know what happened to them, and don't see a simple way of deducing what the ethical theory of that would be.  But it would not involve threats, punishments, attempts to scare anybody off doing it again.  If what happens to them is that they get put directly into cryonic suspension so they can't do it again and eventually the Future decides what to do with them, maybe we wouldn't be told about that, exactly so that it didn't sound like a threat."

"The Abaddon thing - is sort of sad, you know?  People shouldn't think that's needed.  Shouldn't think that's how oaths work."