Keltham did not understand why woman-whose-name-he-forgot was mentioning 'abortions' in the same breath as 'dead children', unless Fe-Anar has a contagious misapprehension about the Baseline meaning of the term and she is trying to say 'dead infants', since neither fetuses nor infants have qualia.

Keltham is in the middle of expressing a different important-seeming thought, and fails to chase down this slight note of confusion because he does not know exactly which slight notes of confusion are important and he has been feeling them almost constantly throughout this conversation!

"I'd say 'good for you' except for the part where that's not actually a figure of merit, Civilization could easily have ten kids per couple if we wanted there to be five billion people in twenty years, but that is not in fact a desideratum."

"So I can guess where the next arc of the story is going at this point.  Turns out, everywhere on Golarion is awful in different ways, 'Lawful' is not, careful reasoning, and 'Good' is not Light, and somehow I'm supposed to build Civilization out of that from scratch rather than being given an overly convenient existing base to build on anywhere.  The gol ilani need their own territory, aren't able to fit into any existing system, they're recruited from the misfits of all the existing regions -"

"What's horribly wrong with Lastwall?  Iomedae seemed cool.  For that matter, the god I prayed to is not a god who would countenance anyone not being allowed to keep stuff they make it and trade it with others."

Keltham did not understand why woman-whose-name-he-forgot was mentioning 'abortions' in the same breath as 'dead children', unless Fe-Anar has a contagious misapprehension about the Baseline meaning of the term and she is trying to say 'dead infants', since neither fetuses nor infants have qualia.  Or maybe she was expressing 'abortions' to include dead infants, and distinguishing dead children?  That would make sense, but why is abortion even a bad thing on these relative scales?

Keltham is in the middle of expressing a different important-seeming thought, and fails to chase down this slight note of confusion because he does not know exactly which slight notes of confusion are important and he has been feeling them almost constantly throughout this conversation!

"I'd say 'good for Osirion' except for the part where that's not actually a figure of merit, Civilization could easily have ten kids per couple if we wanted there to be five billion people in twenty years, but that is not in fact a desideratum."

"So I can guess where the next arc of the story is going at this point.  Turns out, everywhere on Golarion is awful in different ways, 'Lawful' is not, careful reasoning, and 'Good' is not Light, and somehow I'm supposed to build Civilization out of that from scratch rather than being given an overly convenient existing base to build on anywhere.  The gol ilani need their own territory, aren't able to fit into any existing system, they're recruited from the misfits of all the existing regions -"

"What's horribly wrong with Lastwall?  Iomedae seemed cool.  For that matter, the god I prayed to is not a god who would countenance anyone not being allowed to keep stuff they make it and trade it with others."

Keltham did not understand why woman-whose-name-he-forgot was mentioning 'abortions' in the same breath as 'dead children', unless Fe-Anar has a contagious misapprehension about the Baseline meaning of the term and she is trying to say 'dead infants', since neither fetuses nor infants have qualia.  Or maybe she was expressing 'abortions' to include dead infants, and distinguishing dead children?  That would make sense, but why is abortion even a bad thing on these relative scales?

Keltham is in the middle of expressing a different important-seeming thought, and fails to chase down this slight note of confusion because he does not know exactly which slight notes of confusion are important and he has been feeling them almost constantly throughout this conversation!

"I'd say 'good for Osirion' except for the part where that's not actually a figure of merit, Civilization could easily have ten kids per couple if we wanted there to be five billion people in twenty years, but that is not in fact a desideratum."

"So I can guess where the next arc of the story is going at this point.  Turns out, everywhere on Golarion is awful in different ways, 'Lawful' is not, careful reasoning, and 'Good' is not Light, Golarion probably doesn't have a concept for that, and somehow I'm supposed to build Civilization out of that from scratch rather than being given an overly convenient existing base to build on anywhere.  The gol ilani need their own territory, aren't able to fit into any existing system, they're recruited from the misfits of all the existing regions -"

"What's horribly wrong with Lastwall?  Iomedae seemed cool.  For that matter, the god I prayed to is not a god who would countenance anyone not being allowed to keep stuff they make it and trade it with others."

Keltham did not understand why woman-whose-name-he-forgot was mentioning 'abortions' in the same breath as 'dead children', unless Fe-Anar has a contagious misapprehension about the Baseline meaning of the term and she is trying to say 'dead infants', since neither fetuses nor infants have qualia.  Or maybe she was expressing 'abortions' to include dead infants, and distinguishing dead children?  That would make sense, but why is abortion even a bad thing on these relative scales?

Keltham is in the middle of expressing a different important-seeming thought, and fails to chase down this slight note of confusion because he does not know exactly which slight notes of confusion are important and he has been feeling them almost constantly throughout this conversation!

"I'd say 'good for Osirion' except for the part where that's not actually a figure of merit, Civilization could easily have ten kids per couple if we wanted there to be five billion people in twenty years, but that is not in fact a desideratum."

"So I can guess where the next arc of the story is going at this point.  Turns out, everywhere on Golarion is awful in different ways, 'Lawful' is not, careful reasoning, and 'Good' is not Light, Golarion probably doesn't have a concept for that, and somehow I'm supposed to build Civilization out of that from scratch rather than being given an overly convenient existing base to build on anywhere.  The gol ilani need their own territory, aren't able to fit into any existing system, they're recruited from the misfits of all the existing regions -"

"What's horribly wrong with Lastwall?  Iomedae seemed cool.  For that matter, the god I prayed to is not a god who would countenance anyone not being allowed to keep stuff they make and trade it with others."