That's fair, and essentially what I want to do. My impression has been that this is much larger than you're making it out to be, and much darker than you're implying though.1)Deter us from acting where necessary? No.
Being sure of what the effects of our actions are before acting? Yes. Especially when there is no time pressure. Im not advocating running across actual slaves and kidnappings and turning a blind eye. Or walking away from a murder.
And yes, shutting down operations we dont like/approve of is par for the course.
I won't quibble over the definition of slavery here, because that's a derail we probably don't want to get into. I will say that compelling people into sex work is screwed up, and that the way it's being backed here makes it incredibly difficult for mundane authorities to manage.Most of the people being used this way are in some way beholden to their 'benefactors', whether they are in the country illegally or had some other reason to leave their old lives behind. Hooks behind hooks....
My (probably somewhat unrealistic) hope is that the library is run by competent people interested in protecting mortals, with the subtly to oppose this sort of thing, but lacking in the power to really make it sting for the vampire courts.
If that's the case we can hand the evidence off to them and they can coordinate law enforcement in a way that won't instantly turn into a shit show*. Once we have RVD we could break tricky hard points for them to fill in for their weak point.
I don't expect to be able to roll the whole thing up, because the white court isn't exactly a pushover, but we could help a lot of people who are being victimized. If we're clever about it we could even push them towards being less awful.
In any operation some triage is necessary, and not all white court establishments will be run the same way. If there are people running on recruitment by way of offering piles of money then they go on the bottom of the list. The guys doing things like smuggling people into the country and using their immigration status to keep them trapped go towards the top.
Even if the library can't help we can still do something, if in a less effective way.
We probably can't stop them from being assholes regardless, but we can make being a huge one more dangerous and less profitable.
* Looking at you Daedalus.
You make some interesting points here, though I don't totally agree with them.My short response is that they weren't very absolute if they got overthrown, now were they?
For a long response, I don't know what the QM has planned, so the following is highly speculative, and I might even advise the QM that maybe this is one of those topics we shouldn't poke too much because a four-way crossover between Exalted, WoD, Dresden Files, and reality is likely to result in weird edge cases and contradictory setting facts. Focus more on punching vampire face, less on cosmology.
With that caveat in mind...
Christianity is committed to worshiping the absolute good.
Some other religions have ancestor-worship, sun-worship, pantheons of small gods and personal patrons, or other kinds of finitude that can "play nice" with crossovers.
But the core Christian creeds, the community of saints, the catechism that Molly has as a Catholic, these things are about the absolute good Himself (notwithstanding a few fringe heretics). He who has made all things; He who will judge all things; He who is the final authority on what good and evil are. If you disagree with Him, you are wrong.
A lot of people have objections to this, ranging from schismatic quibbles to complete disbelief, and IRL we mostly have an uneasy truce over it. But it's hard to check cosmological facts one way or the other.
Exalted introduces weird superpowers for checking cosmology directly, like the Crown of Eyes that we've been politely asked not to use on the White God. If it's discovered through cosmology-checking superpowers that the White God of this setting is not the absolute good but merely a Primordial or similar very-big mostly-good, then that implies Christianity is false and all Christians should cease worshipping the White God. Your interpretation of Exalted themes seems sharply at odds with my interpretation of Dresden Files themes, then.
It's worth noting that in the Dresden Files the Outside isn't part of creation, and the white gods policies towards them are very different than he has towards anyone else. Denarians get the whole redemption thing, and the knights only kill as a last resort.
Outsiders don't even get a warning; the knights don't try to hunt them, but when it does come up they universally oppose whatever they're up to and make with the stabbing.
On the religious element; I think it's a bit of a leap to suggest that learning the white god is anything less than an absolute is grounds for dissolving the faith.
To start, at a certain level of this sort of system 'absolute' becomes a matter of perspective.
To suggest one possible scenario, it could be the case that the white god is a primordial that emerged after the fall of creation and made a new version inspired by it. The whole thing wasn't his original idea, but he did produce it himself and presides over it as judge.
That would allow for everything he's claimed to be true, but also incomplete, and therefore the catechism to be incorrect because of a lack of human understanding.
Which is something of a recurring theme in Christian thought: knowing the mind of god is impossible, and people get it wrong all the time.
Which is where people would probably go with it IC if they knew.