It's the same argument?
Sexism is far more significant in the March and the northern provinces, because we settled those with refugees and then never culturally converted them.
Sexism is not a major concern in core provinces like Valleyhome because they don't see a problem with supporting a woman, though it's somewhat unusual
This has nothing to do with Study Health, though. Study Metal solves the bad logic problem. Study Health would help us fight this rib-cracking cough, whether by developing a vaccine (unlikely) or simply developing: a habit of washing hands; face masks; cough syrup; idk enough about whooping cough to continue.
Study Metal will currently
reinforce the bad logic. Everyone is diseased. You study metal. People studying metal invariably get infected at some point.
Clearly metal is cursed.
Whooping cough? Nothing there we could do about it. It's sneaking past the quarantine because it's a minor infection in adults. It's mostly deadly to children. It spreads by air, and wood/ceramic masks will not stop an airbourne pathogen.
The only way to prevent it currently is to not have people live so close to each other. Its spreading though apparently healthy carriers
The only way to cure it...incidentally, did you know decongestants don't work on whooping cough? You can't do symptomatic treatment.
As already stated, please consider as to what "immediate problems" might mean. Is a continuous, endemic disease really only an "immediate" problem?
Context sensitivity. The conversation AN was replying to suggested that:
-The superstition can be removed in that way.
-The disease can be removed in that way.
It's unknown whether they're actually of higher availability. Our boats and their boats just happened to meet, and it's quite possible that the pirates stole them in the strife, which would mean they have less boats at home.
Remember that each boat is likely owned by a family in their civilization, and "owned" by a family in ours.
Stealing them is possible, but for bandits to have access to boats also mean that the least well off and influential people in the culture have enough boat access to attack someone else for their stuff on a national scale.
Maybe. It certainly looks like New Trails will do something, but is it worth it to bring stability down to 0 over the course of our new Hero's election? What will that do to her "other effects"? I think it's quite clear that we can wait on Trails but can't wait on strengthening her position so that our civ doesn't go "wow, elect a woman and society crumbles."
Please make a convincing plan that raises stability w/o depending on a further fall to -1.
Lowering stability strengthens her position by making values held uncertain, allowing for an action which she is extremely good at to be performed.
Stability 0 and Stability 1 are not "Society crummbles". It's the normal state of events.
Worst case it doesn't enable Restore Order and leaves us at 0, still needing to burn Stability.
+, doing New Trails now means it will take significantly longer to do a Double Main New Trails, though I suppose that since our goal is connecting w/ the Stallion Tribes that doesn't matter.
Still means that we connect with these infamously patriarchal people during a time when our new King has brought our people down from their previously great height. Doing GS then Dam + New Trails or Province then Double New Trails just seems less risky, socially.
Grand Sacrifice also closes off the option to use Annual Festivals to normalize culture. Which is the other option that people are not taking because it's more expensive and pays less stats.
[] Someone else (Standard) /// Just... why?
Harmony option. Pick the mediocre guy as a political compromise, rather than reward either of the controversial candidates
Now, Grand Sacrifice vs New Trails. While the vote for Sacrifice tries to shore up Stability (where were you people when we were spending Stability like water during the Tax Crisis and earlier?), narratively I believe, in conjunction with our new taboo against metal, this option would result in people destroying their metal tools. Since the Copper Mine gave us 3 Econ, and Grand Sacrifice costs 3 Econ, it makes a sort of mechanical sense.
...I can't believe I didn't see that possibility coming.
