"Well, we don't think that's wrong, so people will do it if they want to. I - she didn't even object, I'm not sure what rule we could've been using to conclude we could feed her if we didn't touch her."

"Well, you can put food near her and tell her she may have some, and it's much harder to do that with putting your hands on somebody. Her experiences among faeries include people thinking it was fascinating when she cried so if I were her I'd certainly have learned not to visibly object to things as fast as possible!"

"So is the human definition of cruel treatment something like - 'any interaction they don't invite' -"

"There are things humans can ethically spring on one another. There are even lots of them! Your oversimplification will not give you too many false positives eeeexcept then we might have to define 'invite' in unfortunate amounts of detail since it matters what consequences they can expect from inviting or not inviting things."

"That occurred to me but I don't see how to insulate humans from the consequences of any choices they make without, like, making it pretty hard for humans to have any effects on the world or any interpersonal relationships."

"It has occurred to me that I could probably make enough food or whatever to buy her off you and get her sent home if that's a thing you can do. It seems real likely that people who need to eat should just not live here."

"We can send her home. If she invites that. Without anyone having suggested that anything would be affected in any way."

"Offering to do things for people is usually fine and in this case is probably the best you can do. How much food or whatever are we talking about here."

He gestures at the feast. "Around this much? Preferably not in this form, we'd want something we could store for when we want it."

"That's doable. I'd offer to tell her the good news myself but I am chained to a cage which someone has filled with bowling balls."

"If she agrees when someone asks her then they can also ask her if she'd like to come back here."

"I was going to send her off with some presents if I managed to get her out."

"They can also ask her whether she would like any presents."

"They should probably specify that they are from me and not someone whose presents are evil faery crap."

"We're not evil. But I'll tell her where the presents are from."

"Preeeetty sure her last court raped her a bunch."

He takes a second to figure out that his face should look disapproving but then it looks disapproving. 

"That's one of those things that humans list right next to murder when listing bad things."

"Having sex with people?"

"That both parties do not want. We also had a really long and heated cultural argument about whether it counts as wanting it enough if you're getting paid!"

"I was not being too conservative about what to tell everyone."

"I did come to that conclusion, yes. The cultural argument eventually came down on the side of voluntary transactions being fine, incidentally, but that was after no one really needed the money to eat."

"I think faeries might be importantly different from humans in some ways."

"I have not actually gone on a rampage about any faery-on-faery treatment."

"Wasn't sure if that was just because you hadn't seen any. Okay. Having sex with humans when they don't want it is very wrong as humans think about wrongness. - is the touching thing related to that?"