Well, that's good, at least. From the way Delegate Requena i Cortes was talking about it she wasn't sure. She's still kind of confused about the conscience exception for conscription, though — the part about different people's consciences caring more about different things isn't confusing, but any given war is still going to be Good or Evil, so you're either conscripting people for Evil wars or letting people claim conscience exceptions for Good ones. Maybe the idea is that Lastwall might be wrong about whether a war is Good or Evil, except people keep trying to get her to listen to everything Lastwall says, so that doesn't seem very likely? In any case, she can see about finding someone to explain it to her later. Maybe it'll make more sense if that's the only thing they're talking about, or for that matter if she's had a chance to eat something.

In any case, right now she should probably focus on the illegal orders thing.

"I think the illegal orders rules would help a little but they're probably not enough on their own to help very much, unless the Judiciary Committee does a really good job of setting up the courts so they don't just say 'actually telling some of your servants that they can't wear shoes in the winter is totally a lawful purpose' or whatever. ...Could people just swear oaths not to do whatever it is that someone is trying to order them to do? Like, if I swear an oath not to do anything Evil, would that make it illegal, using these rules, to tell me to do something Evil?"

"...yes, but you'd have a problem if there were any disagreement about what things are and are not Evil, and those may be much more common than you are imagining."

"........well, I swear not to do anything I think is Evil. ...and I swear to wear shoes if it's winter, and not to sleep with someone just because he ordered me to, and not to be a target for archery practice even if someone orders me to, and not to — uh, probably it doesn't make sense to list all the bad things I've ever heard of someone being ordered to do in the middle of the meeting."

"Probably not, no. I am willing to go over some of the details that are bringing you up short later, it's just not a good use of committee time."

Nod.

Enric flinches at Victoria being so loose with the oaths. He understands that she’s reaching for the one thing that sounds like it protects her from the lords, like he did for rights, but oaths are something to think about before saying. Good thing is, no one would really consider her an oathbreaker if she lost her shoes in winter and had to keep walking home, just young and a bit witless.