"It can be."

"Oh, that's way better than if it was forever."

"But also I think you can learn all the convict slave labor laws today."

"Okay, I hope so. Is there anything I need to give you more words about?"

"Hmm. I'm going to try to read them and see where I have trouble. They say...

"The... everyone working together thing... of Har says some laws to all people who live in Har and... do things like going shopping or saying things to people... It's really hard to do this quickly. Um. It says it wants you to...

"Pay taxes. The taxes are in a list but I can help you with the list.

"Other people who aren’t slaves have bodies. If those people don’t want you to touch their bodies, or change their bodies, or do magic to their bodies, then don’t.

"Don’t kill anyone who doesn’t want to die.

"People have things. Don't take their things if they don't want you to. Don't change their things or do magic to their things if they don't want you to.

"If you have a slave, and if a... smart person? If a kind of smart person would think it was really obvious that your slave can't follow the laws, don't make them stop being a slave.

"If you... I need more words about promises and selling with promises."

"...guarantee? Uh, warranty? ...fraud? ....people having things includes slaves doesn't it. Is there a rule about what counts as knowing somebody wants you to touch them? - maybe you meant expert or psychologist or something about thinking it's obvious someone can't follow the laws."

"I think I need more words about fraud. I don’t mean an expert, I just also don’t mean a baby or someone who doesn’t know anything. People having things does include slaves."

"I don't know all that many words about fraud! Like... if I bought something that looked like a TV or that somebody said was a TV and it was a box with rocks in it, that would be fraud, because it's not a TV. I don't think that's very helpful as an example but I'm blanking."

"The law says not to do that. But the law only says anything if - uh. If you promise to give someone a TV because they're saying 'give me a TV or I will kill you', then the law isn't about that. It's about if you promise to give someone a TV and that person isn't saying they'll kill you or steal from you or break your things."

"Okay, so if you're being threatened you can lie to them to get away."

"If the threat is to break the law."

"Oh. So - yes if they're saying 'give me that or I will poke you in the arm' but no if they're saying, uh, 'give me that or I will kill my slave in front of you'."

"Yes. You understand."

"I guess!!"

"You really don’t like it when slaves are hurt. I kind of understand, it makes me sad sometimes."

"It's not like it's better than hurting anybody else somehow??"

"...They get about as sad, sometimes sadder. But hurting other people can... break society?"

"You can have a society without any slavery."

"Amentans, who have babies who can’t do magic, can have a society without any slavery, but sure?"

"What do babies with magic have to do with it?"

"You can just kill all your criminals but you can't just kill all your babies."

"- I didn't say anything about killing babies! What!"

"I think on Amenta maybe they don't need to be slaves or dead."

"How does having them be slaves or dead help anything!"

"It helps with doing magic so that they don't kill people."