There are dath ilani who would have gone through everything Keltham just did, and felt nothing but a distant sadness about losing Carissa, after having barely managed to connect to her in the first place.  They might have walked through the entire thing Exactly Correctly, not because they are that disciplined, but because their emotions were never strong enough to knock them off their Way, or even push on them too hard.  On being told it was all a lie, they would not have dissociated from a single one of their emotions, even if it felt relatively awful, because it was so rare for them to feel anything even that strongly, in their lives.

They'd feel that same distant sadness, maybe, on turning 20 and learning that Civilization wanted no children from them.  A lot of people like that need to not have kids, if you want to create space for people like Keltham to have four kids experimentally to see about fixing that problem.

There are dath ilani who would have gone through everything Keltham just did, and felt nothing but a distant sadness about losing Carissa, after having barely managed to connect to her in the first place.  They might have walked through the entire thing Exactly Correctly, not because they are that disciplined, but because their emotions were never strong enough to knock them off their Way, or even push on them too hard.  On being told it was all a lie, they would not have dissociated from a single one of their emotions, even if it felt relatively awful, because it was so rare for them to feel anything even that strongly, in their lives.

They'd feel that same distant sadness, maybe, on turning 20 and learning that Civilization would subsidize no children from them.  A lot of people like that need to not have kids, if you want to create space for people like Keltham to have four kids experimentally to see about fixing that problem.

There are dath ilani who would have gone through everything Keltham just did, and felt nothing but a distant sadness about losing Carissa, after having barely managed to connect to her in the first place.  They might have walked through the entire thing Exactly Correctly, not because they are that disciplined, but because their emotions were never strong enough to knock them off their Way, or even push on them too hard.  On being told it was all a lie, they would not have dissociated from a single one of their emotions, even if it felt relatively awful, because it was so rare for them to feel anything even that strongly, in their lives.

They'd feel that same distant sadness, maybe, on turning 20 and learning that Civilization's institutions would offer them no subsidy for children.  A lot of people like that need to not have kids, if you want to create space for people like Keltham to have four kids experimentally to see about fixing that problem.

There are dath ilani who would have gone through everything Keltham just did, and felt nothing but a distant sadness about losing Carissa, after having barely managed to connect to her in the first place.  They might have walked through the entire thing Exactly Correctly, not because they are that disciplined, but because their emotions were never strong enough to knock them off their Way, or even push on them too hard.  On being told it was all a lie, they would not have dissociated from a single one of their emotions, even if it felt relatively awful, because it was so rare for them to feel anything even that strongly, in their lives.

They'd feel that same distant sadness, maybe, on turning 20 and learning that Civilization's institutions would offer them negligible subsidy for children.  A lot of people like that need to not have kids, if you want to create space for people like Keltham to have four kids experimentally to see about fixing that problem.

There are dath ilani who would have gone through everything Keltham just did, and felt nothing but a distant sadness about losing Carissa, after having barely managed to connect to her in the first place.  They might have walked through the entire thing Exactly Correctly, not because they are that disciplined, but because their emotions were never strong enough to knock them off their Way, or even push on them too hard.  On being told it was all a lie, they would not have dissociated from a single one of their emotions, even if it felt relatively awful, because it was so rare for them to feel anything even that strongly, in their lives.

They'd feel that same distant sadness, maybe, on turning 20 and learning that Civilization's institutions would offer them negligible subsidy for having children.  A lot of people like that need to not have kids, if you want to create space for people like Keltham to have four kids experimentally to see about fixing that problem.