"Maybe. Common wisdom out of dath ilan is that people tend to instinctively imitate success, including the incidental characteristics of success if you don't think about them carefully, and I'd expect that effect to be much much stronger in Golarion where nobody gets training in thinking about which qualities are incidental or not."
"Some people in my world would say that the solution is to make travel cheaper and then let all the women in Osirion who don't want to be there leave for Absalom; let the men fight over themselves over the fewer and fewer women who would remain, if they saw the women who left looking more - instinctively what a person feels is successful. It's just - the way people talk about other people, including themselves, it seems like this logic, that would be the first thought in my own world's mind - that was my first thought when I heard about Osirion - it doesn't make sense, in a place where women will marry terrible husbands because their shirt has a ruffle, or men will drink alcohol even though that makes them violent and stupid, and people in Cheliax say they want to go to Hell. It seems like - it isn't helping people at all, to offer them more choices - in a world like that - and I don't know people enough to just, optimize their lives for them, I don't want to do that, to be that sort of dangerously Good person, if it's not just, Evil, that I don't want to."
"What do I do, Mirna?"