Wow, that sounds really rough for Valinorians.

The Elves cope. I suppose the Amentans might miss it. Or maybe they've noticed by now that you can kind of just ignore the law in Valinor.

You can? Because you never had to invent things that happen if you did that because you would all not wear purple if the king said so?

Yep. There are greys now, I think Maitimo set something up for them to handle Amentan problems.

They are probably not gonna arrest each other for watching porn, if they can find any.

I figured. They could find plenty of nude Elves, we don't consider that sexual.

Really.

We didn't start wearing clothing until we knew how to make really pretty clothing.

Of course not. Mustn't insult the gracile Elven form with rags.

Being around ugly things is really distracting. When I can't empathize with Amentans about reds I imagine that we had to live with orcs for some reason.

And that would be like this?

I think we'd be less horrible but it'd have the essential features of - a large population that finds it extremely unpleasant in a hard to fix way to be around another population.

Sometimes social workers seemed to get sort of used to us but then they'd act like they deserved an award.

Maybe Amentan children not raised with it would be fine and if we got you all away somewhere then in one generation no one'd care.

Maybe.

- sorry, I know it's a sensitive topic.

I would've thought the internet would help but it mostly doesn't.

Why is that?

Why doesn't it help or why should it?

I see why it should, you get to know someone and realize they're just a person. Why doesn't that happen?

People take the opportunity to pretend they aren't red. Sometimes they say eventually, and sometimes they can keep some of their friends, but it doesn't really... work. And if they're up front about it they make red friends on red websites and no one else talks to them unless they're looking for somewhere to spray hate, which to be fair happens to everyone on the internet, if not as much.

I don't see why people'd stop being friends at learning someone's red, if it's just over the internet.

Because they're mad it was a secret. It'd be like not telling someone you were a felon.

That doesn't seem reasonable.

Didn't say it was.