"More selective, perhaps, rather than thorough."

"Kind of also says something that more people would like to work for the FBI but I guess the GPMG thing is really constraining you." Shrug. "Next step is summer camp? Does that change if I want to also consider the librarian thing?"

"Yes, that's the next step. Just different camp activities."

"Alrighty. Email me summer camp details, I guess?" She takes an Almond Joy.

"Mmhm. Keep asking good questions."

"Can do."

Bella goes to the hotel and sleeps off the so much exercise and flies home and talks to both parents about being a space angel or possibly zombie-slaying librarian.

She receives via email an information packet with pretty much all the stuff she's been told so far about being a space angel, plus a similar level of detail about the zombie-slaying librarian; Of particular note, the goddess trying to stop the undead says that the magic she's arranging to grant is shaped to require strong friendly or romantic bonds with many people for best effect, and isn't promising that she'll survive the experience.

Summer camp is in summer, and they will pay her to attend. It will mainly consist of business school type activities, project planning and negotiation and lectures from Khintal, to see how she handles and likes Phoenix's best facsimile of what it would be like.

She will go to summer camp in summer!

There's four others she recognizes from the training day, they've cut down a lot. The 'camp' takes place in a small suburb in Georgia. They have a curfew and day activities that leave only a few non-sleep hours of freedom. They have really good catered food. They have Khintal scripture to read and review (it's mostly about how easy it is to lie and cheat and destroy things, how such acts have a great many times greater cost than benefit distributed out, and therefore the social contract of charity/fair dealing is good for everyone). They have philosophical arguments and debate that seem semi-overtly geared to seeing if one is a "good" person. They have a few subtle tests of character in opportunities to quietly sabotage their remaining competitors, or help them where they're struggling. They have business planning and economics and generating-accurate-work-estimates activities. They squeeze in a first aid class or two and then have high-pressure strictly timed triage/first aid exercises with medical dummies. They have a few programming/logic puzzles and some mental dexterity type challenges- Overcoming optical illusions, or saying the color a word is printed in, instead of the word that's actually written down- These are supposed to be decent mental practice for magic, apparently.

As far as she knows this isn't even a competition, she has no particular reason to believe Khintal wouldn't take ten space angels, so she barely notices opportunities to sabotage. She's not great at strictly timed triage because she can't accelerate past a sedate walk without becoming a casualty herself, unfortunately, but she's good at the other stuff.

They're also interested in her stance on some of the debates/ethics bits.

Should white collar crime be punished more harshly than violent crime? When is it acceptable to steal? When is it acceptable for a government to censor things or invade peoples' privacy? If someone is shortchanging you payment for building something and the structure is currently unsafe and might hurt someone, is it ethical to leave it and stop working? Variations on the Trolley Problem, like harvesting someone for organs to save ten other people, if they're an innocent, a death row criminal, a volunteer. Should gambling be allowed even though gambling addiction can destroy lives? Do these various examples of scenarios count as corruption/graft? Why is corruption/graft bad anyway?

She'd want to like, look up statistics to support some of her intuitions on these? She's not sure if the ways white collar and violent crime are contemplated and committed is equally responsive to deterrence. But if you factor that out it seems like violent crime requires a lot more penalty to prevent recidivism - a white collar criminal can probably just get blacklisted from relevant industries whereas a violent criminal might be dangerous to anyone they were in contact with.

She is reasonably sympathetic to Jean Valjean situations and stuff like that. Like, broadly speaking, in ordinary situations, you should not steal. If you have a really good reason it is not as bad as most kinds of crime. Might need to make sure you're picking a target who isn't going to be in dire straits over the loaf of bread.

Governments mostly shouldn't censor things, like, at all. They could maybe preferentially withhold funding from places that say things they don't like? Possibly there are magic infohazards? Maybe there is some tension with people having a right to privacy and the government could find itself in the position of having to enforce that against malicious publications. Invading people's privacy depends kind of a lot on what the original expectations set were and what kind of privacy. People should be able to know in advance whether something is private or not.

Might be ethical to demolish or vandalize the structure so nobody goes in it while it's not safe? Might also depend on the wording of the initial contract and what arbitration resources are available.

People can volunteer to donate their organs upon death and also they can commit suicide, seems fine to combine the two though she'd change her mind if there was some systematic issue with people feeling pressured. Non-volunteers, well, it seems to be important to people to be able to decide how their bodies are disposed of upon their deaths even if she isn't super clear on why, so if they don't want to donate their organs then even if they're getting the death penalty they should not be donating their organs. Also might create fucked up judiciary incentives. Super no killing innocent people to harvest their organs, that has basically all the disadvantages of murder and murder is sufficiently bad that you should not do it even with this compensatory advantage.

People seem to like gambling and while, again, she does not understand this preference, it seems important to them? Analogous to alcohol. Probably ripping it out of a culture would be destructive in some illegible way. Discouraging or taxing it or having public service announcement campaigns or whatever seems fine to a reasonable point but people who want to do life-ruining stuff might just really value the life-ruining stuff and accept the risk.

Corruption is only bad if the thing that's being corrupted is good! It's better to be able to bribe your way out of a totalitarian regime than not being able to do that; people who can afford bribes aren't somehow by virtue of this okay to totalitarianize. Corruption of a good thing is bad because it makes the good thing less efficient and trustworthy.

Her debate opponent posits that censorship can do more good than harm in some cases by preventing slander/libel, stopping fraud and scams and scummy tabloid type practices, and hiding stuff like how to make nerve gas or nuclear weapons.

The government could conceivably also find itself in the situation of having to adjudicate slander and libel and false advertising, and in fact has done so many times on Earth, but she's not sure that actually has to be the government's job? It should probably be someone's job but it could be like, Snopes writ large or something. Nerve gas and nuclear weapons are as far as she understands it also hard to make in addition to being secret? Maybe there are magic things that are easy if you know them, hence the infohazard situation. Maybe infohazard is the wrong word since it's not like a basilisk.

Governments handling that sort of thing have been shown to work, ish, with some successes and some failures on being accountable for it, and snopes writ large wouldn't have the chance to vote bad actors out.

Well, democracies can have voters getting their info from Snopes in principle.

On the last day of the camp they ask everyone why they want, or don't want, the space angel job. Also, the people who've been selected will get the chance to use the godphone before making a final decision.

She wants to be magic and immortal and this seems like the best gig on offer!

Okay.

The godphone is in Phoenix HQ for North America, which is in downtown Atlanta. She and one other guy have been selected. It is telepathic; They think Bella will be able to use it if she focuses on wanting to, since she could see the illusion once she was aware of it. Khintal would see everything she is thinking during the conversation, and send her mental images that others have described as 'like a whole paragraph packed into a single word' and 'intense but informative'.

Does she want to try? Should they skip ahead to the magic researcher examination to double check that she can be safely transmigrated, first?

Oof. Can she pick up and put down the godphone during the conversation or is it one and done? Is this also how Khintal talks off the phone?

Yes she can pick it up and set it down, and no. The power needed to punch through worlds forces a wide channel. You can pray to him and get gentle(r) visions/nudges, after transmigration.

She will try it but write out a conversation agenda and get an annoying song stuck in her head first.

They make her go through some annoying security to get to the secure area. Biometrics, metal detector, passing through a soulscanner (with an appropriate waiver form this time), stern warning that fucking around will not be tolerated.

It looks like a glittery clear polished and faceted crystal the size of a fist, sitting on a simple metal pedestal.

And she just has to touch it?

"That's correct," the guard waiting in the corner of the room confirms.