"I observe that from the perspective the superpowerful being running the place, it wouldn't want any experimental failures hanging around clogging the place up. The story the population was given about what they're doing may tell us something about their natural temperaments, what they're doing doesn't tell us as much."
"I also note that the place may be non-Pharasman enough that the whole thing with people going into the cold to wake up later, isn't suicide, or if it's suicide, isn't that being's equivalent of Evil, or if it's Evil doesn't send you to a particular afterlife based on that."