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Llei is trying to remember if he's ever heard Narikopolus make an impassioned and apparently sincere speech about anything. Not... really. Some borderline examples, but... not really.

Against. Not that it will be trivial for him to find out for sure, but still.

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The Acts are an epic poem about fighting monsters!! You need the commentaries!!!! Against!

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So the last law allows liches to write things, which are bad. But this one allows anything the censors approve, and maybe the censors will also be in favor of liches. Where are they getting the censors, anyways? 

Abstain.

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In favor. The Queen's men should be able to approve all the books that actually matter. How many books worth the paper they're written on can there be, anyways? A hundred?

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You have a Songbird and you want to work her to death confirming that it's okay for people to study math and read poems, kept awake late every night by the desperate knowledge that if she falls behind she'll be sending those book-smugglers' recipients to the mines? Your poor Songbird, you don't deserve her. Against.

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For. 

He doesn’t care about books, just doesn’t like Korva. That beggar woman thinks she’s so smug because she reads a lot of books, wants to whine about how she got forty lashes for being too pathetic for wizard school. She probably wouldn’t last an hour in the well.

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This one seems complicated but a bunch of the Archdukes were opposed so probably that's what's safest. Against.

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Books aren't much use, but neither is letting the nobles proclaim that something is fine, and then a day later round up everyone who believed it and send them to the mines. Against.

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The significance here is dominated by political concerns. Literacy is fine, but it's not that much of a tragedy if the booksellers all fold, or if some silly books inspire a handful more criminals, they'll be stupid ones and easy to catch, more hands for the quarries. And yes, he's anonymous, but annoying Chelam or De Fraga or the archdukes and having them check...

The Queen killed the Rack. She spared the rest with demands, elevated the Pike, and killed the Rack. Her Majesty is with her archdukes on this.

And the Countess de Seguer had a good point. Changing the law every twenty-four hours is highly unLawful.

Alright, Against.

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This is the one Gemma told her they would put up about hellknights! Against hellknights.

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Karrag doesn't read, and it sounds like this will fill the mines up with people who do. For.

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In favor, the first bill was a whole load of nonsense. Maybe if they keep voting for better replacements these nobles will learn how to write laws.

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Her job is to stop people from worshipping illegal gods. People are more likely to worship illegal gods if they can get books about illegal gods more easily. She wants to do her job. In favor.

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Censors in Westcrown? Bribing them is too rich for Roger's blood. He'll find some angle with the other one. Against.

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Opposed. Was there any doubt?

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In favor, if it reduces the risk of riots.

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Could anyone possibly care less? He can't even be bothered to pick a vote at random, he's just going to abstain.

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Against. Enric doesn’t care about books and pamphlets, but the nobles on his side already passed their law banning them. 

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Marit is pretty unsure about this. He voted against the proposal yesterday — boards of censorship seem much more sensible than the Archduke of Sirmium's complicated scheme — but he's also from Taldor. Taldor's censorship laws really only work because of how inconsistently they're enforced, which is a very bad feature for a law to have. There's a sense in which that's how they're enforcing nearly all the laws right now, with their newly-lengthened list of mitigating conditions several of which seem written primarily with an eye to not hanging a quarter of the country, but he'd very much prefer to eventually have a criminal code that can be consistently enforced without relying on the assumption that the magistrates and prosecutors will exercise nearly unlimited discretion, including in cases where they directly contravene the law in so doing.

On the other hand, the law from yesterday does seem to be deeply flawed. If the Count of Cerdanya were proposing a law with lighter penalties, he thinks it would straightforwardly be an improvement, even accounting for the damage to rule of law from passing another law so soon.

Against, but he expects he'll probably be voting in favor of a modified version in a month.

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The last one banned the Parables? Why didn't someone say something? Or did it get lost in all the long speeches...

Anyways, in favor of not banning the Parables.

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Yeah, that one really is decisive. The cities will get up to some nonsense on books regardless but they should stay out of everyone else's business. In favor.

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Against!  He's been quite enjoying the imports from Osirion, thank you very much!

... and if the vote for passes, how am I supposed to dispose of the books with me right now?

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Against. At least this one was less complicated than the others though still some complicated. 

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Against.

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