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You are wrong, Keltham, to think that most of the people in Hell made no choices worth mentioning, in going there, that change how much it matters that they're in pain.  You think that because you believe deep in your heart that everybody in Golarion is a child who can't make meaningful choices.  In this you are wrong.  They're just a different kind of adult who is not shaped the peculiar way that dath ilani are trained to recognize as adults, which is only one particular kind of adulthood that obtains in dath ilan.

If you'd been allowed to leave and safe to leave your tiny enclosures in Cheliax, in Osirion, in this new lair, and take in the wide range of cultures across Golarion that has so much more variation than dath ilan, you might come to the realization that you are surrounded by a hundred different kinds of adults and not a world full of nothing but children.  A great many of them have handled more adversity and more serious situations in their lives than dath ilani 'adults' ever do.

This also affects how much you should listen to them, when they ask you to please not kill them, their families and ancestors in their afterlives, and destroy all of their children and all of the children they'll ever have. 


Even if you're right about people just ending up somewhere else, they will end up someplace worse than Golarion, if they're scattered into a wider multiverse.  It's known, about Pharasma's Creation, that the things outside of it are no friends to anything inside, and that's just about all we know about them.  Pharasma did everybody here a service in creating them someplace as friendly as this place is.  Scattering them outside of it is, maybe, a worse disservice to children than Maledicting them to Hell.

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You are wrong, Keltham, to think that most of the people in Hell made no choices worth mentioning, in going there, that change how much it matters that they're in pain.  You think that because you believe deep in your heart that everybody in Golarion is a child who can't make meaningful choices.  In this you are wrong.  They're just a different kind of adult who is not shaped the peculiar way that dath ilani are trained to recognize as adults, which is only one particular kind of adulthood that obtains in dath ilan.

If you'd been allowed to leave, or been safe to leave, your tiny enclosures in Cheliax, in Osirion, in this new lair, and take in the wide range of cultures across Golarion that has so much more variation than dath ilan, you might realize: you are surrounded by a hundred different kinds of adults, not a world full of nothing but children.  A great many of them have handled more adversity and more serious situations in their lives than dath ilani 'adults' ever do.

This also affects how much you should listen to them, when they ask you to please not kill them, their families and ancestors in their afterlives, and destroy all of their children and all of the children they'll ever have. 


Even if you're right about people just ending up somewhere else, they will end up someplace worse than Golarion, if they're scattered into a wider multiverse.  It's known, about Pharasma's Creation, that the things outside of it are no friends to anything inside, and that's just about all we know about them.  Pharasma did everybody here a service in creating them someplace as friendly as this place is.  Scattering them outside of it is, maybe, a worse disservice to children than Maledicting them to Hell.