"Well, you might have a few less people to worry about when I'm done. Oh, by the way, what morals will they have?"

"...They'll believe in the Church of England? Some of them anyway. Uhhh. How do I explain this to someone from another world..."

He does not point out that at least he understands the concept of morality now.

"What's the Church of England and what does what they believe about it have to do with their morals?"

"It's the state religion, for weird historical reasons. The major churches have different beliefs about God's teachings. I think the church of England doesn't recognize the Pope as representing God, because no mere human could do that? But they'll want to follow God's teachings as laid out in the bible, and the ten commandments, and be virtuous, and they'll want to build a church they can gather and hold mass in once a week."

"I met a god once but probably not the same one the Church of England follows. What are the ten commandments and your god's teachings as laid out in the bible? What's mass?"

“Er... I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any strange gods before Me - There is only one true God, you can't believe in other gods - Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain - Don't swear using God's name, it's disrespectful - Remember to keep holy the Lord's day - That's the seventh day of each week, for mass, where people get together and sing and pray - Honor thy father and mother - Obey your parents, they know what's best for you - Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Adultery is sex with someone who's married or if you're married with someone who's not your spouse. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Er, no lying and spreading rumors. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.”

Having "obey your parents" as a moral command is not what he wants from immigrants but he's not going to leave them out in the cold even if they are terrible. At least their justification for it makes it sound like they care about their children's happiness a little.

"Is it going to be a problem that I know of two other gods? Or maybe just one other god, is yours Hylia?"

"...Maybe these other gods are facets of the one true god? Multiple gods doesn't make much sense to me. But that's just the Ten Commandments, the most essential pieces of Christianity. Christianity has more than that, and there's moral issues that aren't quite about religion, they just don't come with a neatly organized list of commandments."

"They were in another world and they're kind of hard to miss so your world probably just has the one you know about. So, uh, does the commandment to obey your parents apply no matter what they do? Does it apply after you're an adult?"

"No. It's honor thy parents, not obey thy parents. You should always care about them and love them, but... It sort of slowly expires? A five year old asks their parents whenever they want to go out and play. A ten year old asks if they want to walk to the store alone. A fourteen or sixteen year old asks if they want to get a different job or stop going to school. A twenty year old moves out when they find someone to marry, usually. Little kids should obey their parents, unless they've told you to do something that hurts you I guess... They don't know any better for too many things."

"Oh, that's not what I thought you meant at all! Not that I'd turn them away when I have sanctuary to offer them and they'd be so useful, but it'll be easier for me if I can bring in some more people who agree with me about slavery being wrong."

"Yeah, slavery's, uh, wrong. There was a whole war about it in America and everything. The north won and banned slavery. You have slavery in your world?"

"Yeah, I'm trying to make that happen less. Any idea how they'll react to it if they move in?"

"...Maybe if you make laws against mistreating slaves? Or a way for slaves to earn freedom? Some will care less than others, but they won't like it."

"I'm still trying to figure out how to implement that kind of thing. I think I could make laws against mistreating them if I had something to do with the ones that can't be freed and no one wants for anything humane. I don't know if I could just personally take responsibility for them."

"Someone has to be responsible? Well, nobody who's going to immigrate owns any slaves, so there's that. And there's always, like, prison and monitoring programs. Those stink but not quite as bad as proper slavery."

"Maybe if I make the criminals pay for the knowledge and command magic I'd need I can try to get permission to try something. It's not just criminals, some people have head injuries and can't remember what the laws are, some people are children."

"Maybe a care house or asylum, for head cases... Making prisoners pay for their own prison will not work. Criminals are usually poor... Wait, kids are slaves? Geez. That is... Maybe a dealbreaker."

"Worse than this weather?"

"If they have heat cores to help 'em? Maybe, yeah."

"I think I like your morals! How do people here treat children?"

Okay then?

"You feed them and teach them and care for them as best you can? Most poorer families' kids have to work for the family to have enough to eat, once they're old enough to be useful. But people would do it a lot less if they didn't need to. Good parents save up money to send their kids to school, to learn things that everyone needs to know, and so that they can get a good job that suits them instead of becoming a chimney sweep, mill girl, or coal hauler because that's all you know how to do. And go to mass with them every week and teach them proper manners and morals and such."

"Sounds pretty similar to what I've heard about how Hylians do it. I'm going to subsidize education when I have enough tax revenue to pay for that and everything else, and once people can educate all their kids I'll arrange for them to want to."

"I think it's kind of sketchy to get people to move into this place with all the different rules... And it feels like another unpleasant surprise turns up every ten minutes. Do you at least give everyone the vote?"

"Every free person can vote in the empire-wide election every nine years, it's not the entire imperial government but the appointed officials are chosen by elected ones, I think. Some states and cities have partly elected governments, Ira Sani's going to have an election in a few years when we have infrastructure and people who care about the state and someone else is interested in running for governor. But if people don't want to move even so I'll give them some warmth and leave, or take them to Milliways and they can have their free drink and wait someplace warm for someone with a better home country to come through the door."