"Because you still have to carry and raise the kid, I'd assume."

"I suppose. And one would still need to be married, which is limiting by design... still, I wouldn't have expected cheap safe contraception to make a larger difference than reducing deaths in childbirth by a factor of one thousand. I would have guessed there were more women and couples desiring children but avoiding pregnancy for safety concerns, than there were those hoping to avoid parenthood but lacking wisdom or overcome by lust... that sounds ridiculous when spoken aloud and I want to emphasize that I know women are foolish and men callous, it's just, I also thought they were interested in having families. I hear more people complaining about too few children, than too many."

"It's good news for me, though, since on Spinworld any commoner can feed her family venison, and my teeming sons and daughters will inherit the tame and empty planet.

"My answer to the question is D. I'd change the tire myself, since there's no hurry."

"All right."

"Crime is up in your town and someone in your community invites you to participate in the neighborhood watch program. Do you contribute your time to help protect your village?
A. Sure. I'd need to watch those who unknowingly are watching me.
B. Where do I sign up!
C. Any reason to get together is a good reason.
D. That's a waste of my time."

"It suddenly occurs to me to ask, if crime is so low on this planet and monsters so few, whether I am an usually powerful warrior and spellcaster. I'm a second circle song-sorcerer whose suggestion lasts four hours, and I'm immune to sleep and cause fear."

"It doesn't actually have any spellcasters."

No spellcasters? None?

"If I'm the only spellcaster on the entire planet, I'm going to try and conquer it. I'll need to find others with a talent for sorcerery and teach them to use it, introduce clerics in a controlled way... Barbatos is said to have sold His world to Hell, and was rewarded with a plane..."

"...But, wait, in the hypothetical, how was I the first to learn sorcerery? Or, invent it. Should I be assuming that in the hypothetical, I have no knowledge of or gift with magic?"

"You should be assuming you have no knowledge of or gift with magic, yes."

"I'm not sure whether I should assume in this scenario that I'm as fragile as firewood, or that I'm the sort of competent fighter favored to retain consciousness through being struck in the head with an axe, but either way, if I'm not better armed and armored than my adversary, without magic I'm certainly no more dangerous than a tall and powerful man. Nonetheless, I think I should like to join the neighborhood watch program. If there is crime in my idyllic Spintown, I want to do something about it, and if my neighbors are organizing for any purpose, I want to be involved in it, and if suspicion is to be cast and rules are to be enforced, I should like to have as close an eye as possible on who it's cast on and how it's enforced. Option B."

"That makes sense."

"You notice a former friend from grade school in a market that you just entered. Your former friend looks really good, like life has been good to them. Do you go after your old friend or let the past stay in the past?
A. I find my "friend," pretend to be someone else and shake them down for whatever I can get.
B. I'm sure that, like me, they wouldn't care.
C. Yes. I'd love to learn the secret to their success.
D. Only if I'm having a good hair day."

"Grade school is school people go through from ages around 5 to 14, or so."

"I'm sure I'd love to reminisce and catch up. Is option B meant to mean that my friend wouldn't mind talking with me, and so we should, or that they wouldn't care to talk with me, and so we shouldn't?"

"I'm honestly not sure, so I'd be tempted to suggest C because that definitely involves talking to them while not pretending to be someone else."

"Option C, then."

"Okay."

"A financially challenged sibling wants to stop paying you back a loan. What say you?
A. The payment schedule never stops, no matter what.
B. I don't care.
C. Interest goes up now.
D. I'd update the terms of our contract to better suit their new financial condition."

"I've never had cause to think this through, I'm an only child. I... am I fond of my sibling, in this scenario? I would like to be fond of my sibling. Would my sibling have my back, if our conditions were reversed? ...These questions of mine might be academic, because D is the correct option regardless of their answers. Option D."

"All right. We also have one bonus question, if you answer it I'll get you an imaginary toy car for the rest of the dream."

"There's a blood drive being held nearby. What do you do?
A. I ignore it. What's the point of getting poked with needles if it doesn't help me?
B. I go donate blood! It's important to help the sick.
C. I go donate blood! Other people will think better of me if they see I've donated.
D. I steal one of the stickers donors get when I think the staffers aren't looking."

Yes, please, Ileosa wants an imaginary toy car!

"I'm gathering from context that a blood drive is an event where friends of a sick or injured person, or woman with a difficult birth, are bled for transfusion? What's a sticker?"

"Oh, a blood drive is when a charity visits a place to ask people at the place to donate some of their blood so they can give it to injured strangers. The blood can be stored, so it doesn't get used for transfusion right away. A sticker is a piece of paper with a design on one side and an adhesive on the other, and blood drives can give donors stickers with their designs so the donors can display their generosity."

That. Sounds. Insane.

Why would you just give someone your blood? There's all kinds of stuff a stranger can do with your blood, ask Ileosa how she knows!

But... their planet doesn't have any spellcasters. So maybe to Spinworlders, the only consideration is the injury and blood loss. Which she could heal right off with cure light which she would have to heal the slow way, painfully. "Is there any known way that someone could use your blood to hurt you, on Spinworld?"

"Sort of. People could use it to help them determine whether other biological samples were yours, which could be used to prove you committed a crime. I don't think the usual blood charity does that though."

So it's not entirely riskless; if Ileosa ever shares her blood, it could de-anonymize her if she ever leaves blood at the scene of a crime.

"People do this for free, just to look Good? That's... well, honestly, it's a lot less self-destructive than some of the things people do to look Evil. If everyone else is doing it, I wouldn't stand out as someone who didn't, but if there are other ways I can signal virtue, I'd rather do some of those. So, A or C."

"They try not to let people be too self-destructive about it. They turn people down if they think people don't have enough blood to spare some. You probably wouldn't stand out all that much if you didn't donate."