"I can see how it would, yeah."

"A mixed blessing, to be sure, but it was mostly an improvement in Anitam."

"I'm glad."

"I'm so curious how modernization'll go in your country."

"We are too! It'll be so much faster than either Earth or Amenta."

"And more centralized and more directed and occurring with - 'modern values' is sort of the wrong term, but..."

"Hmmm, I wonder what a good term is. Besides, uh, 'correct' or something."

"Let's go with correct."

"What if we meet some more exacting society?"

"Cam's is more exacting, though not in a wholly persuasive direction."

"I suppose it has the luxury to be."

"Elephant prosecutions don't come up much, they mostly just signal moral seriousness."

"And they won't execute anyone over it!"

"They won't! Such correct values!"

Cackle.

"I don't think we're wrong. We might be - failing to reason about some domain or other - but I don't expect we'll look back and go 'oh, that moral call, we just weren't right about it'..."

"I could imagine - discovering time travel and not immediately being right about how to deploy that."

" - yeah, fair. Hmmm."

"Are you preemptively designing time travel morality? It depends how the time travel works!"

"I am preemptively designing lots of contingent time travel morality!"

"But it depends on how the time travel works! It could be all kinds of ways!"

"Still! It's hard not to think about now that you raised it!"

"Well. Have fun."

"Anyway. We might get that wrong, I don't think we're getting other things wrong. And your world will have it all right pre-industry, that's not really precedented. Unless one counts Elves, and..."

"Elves are kind of special."