okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
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"This must all be very overwhelming."

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"Yeah."

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"Are there things you've wanted to do that weren't an option because of Rivik's oppression of reds?"

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"- sure, but - idly, I never thought anything would change -"

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Nod. "What do you think people who are angry about the treatment of reds should do?"

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"...I don't know."

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"...does it depend on something?"

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"I don't know what they can do or what would happen if they did things..."

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"Well, apparently Amentans will be really upset if we let reds go everywhere, but most people don't care how Amentans feel about it."

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"They'll be so angry."

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"They couldn't do anything. Usually it's wrong to do something that's against some society's deeply held beliefs but most societies don't have a deeply held belief that other people getting rights would be the worst thing in history."

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That's not a question so Kvina doesn't answer it.

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"Do you think we should go get all the reds and let them live somewhere that won't mistreat them?"

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"I - guess -?"

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"Is there something better than that we could do?"

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"I don't really know anything about politics. I'm a plumber."

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"You know things about yourself, though, and all this politics is really about what's best for you and people who've been through the same things as you."

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"I don't think the clean castes are ever going to stop hating us. People would miss the planet I think."

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"If the Amentan theologians rule that after being resurrected you are clean, do you think you'd want to go back?"

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"...I don't know how to live like a clean person or do a clean job. And I'm not sure everybody would believe the theologians. And then I couldn't see my family."

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And he wants to know what her plans are now and what being resurrected is like and whether her family believed it.

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She is a little too overwhelmed to have any real plans. It was just like not being stabbed anymore and waking up in a hospital. Her family is pretty confused but there do seem to be all-powerful aliens about so it's not like it came from nowhere.

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How does she feel about her murderer? Is she planning to testify at the sentencing hearing?

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Being murdered was very scary and painful but she doesn't have any feelings very specific to the individual who happened to do it because being murdered is sort of an ambient background risk if you are a red. She's not sure what she'd say.

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