We do. Word of AN. They're trying to make us fail the Trader quest so the Traders can create a Power 8 Spitequest with extra spite and we won't have the buffer from Division of Power to ignore it with..
Priests are confused at present. However if we fulfill their temple quest they should both have power and offer better quests next.
Please don't torpedo the government reform we need.
Thats what we just did. Thats why the upper classes are pretty fucking pissed.
See, you can make Traders ambivalent on slavery once you show them how much money paying the poor can generate. They will fight you the whole way, but this is the only way to develop Economic Theory beyond the intuitive "I got money, they don't" zero sum game.
If we're lucky the priests extend their ecological study experience to study the economy as if it was an ecossytem.
Priests always support the prevailing social values and resist foreign values(until they become internal values, then the priests will support it). Always. They're great if you want status quo. Not great if you want change.
The basic thing is that the priests are always fickle as a faction. So take slavery. What are the issues from the priests' perspective?
-Purity - Foreigners being inherently more corrupt because they don't practice good hygiene, do not live in harmony with each other and the spirits. We must fix that, and the half exile system tells us how this can be achieved.
-Tradition - Slavery may or may not be inherently corrupt, because the half-exiles do the same things, and that obviously doesn't corrupt people, so if we do slavery like we do half-exiling, we can obtain the benefits without the spiritual costs.
-Justice - Double standards are unjust and corrupt. Thus slavery should either be accepted as being as just as the half exiles or the half exiles abuse rooted out.
-Justice + Purity - If slavery is corrupt, then by using half exiles like slaves, we are contaminating our entire society's spirits. We must protect everyone and punish those responsible.
-Justice + Purity - If labor is cleansing for half exiles, then it is cleansing for all the impure. It would be unjust to deny purification for the foreign.
Turns out you can use the same social value to argue both ways eh?
