"Do you have any solutions?" he asked.
Lance nodded, "Using refugees against refugees, but that requires time. If your schedule this afternoon can't be changed, then you must prepare to face the scrutiny from the Federation and the world, and it won't be friendly, it's an examining, displeased gaze."
Councilman Williams understands sacrifice; it's just a kind of "convention," much like how the Senate actually knows the results of the presidential election before they're announced yet chooses not to speak. These are the basic facades of politics.
They need to make the public understand what is fair, what is just, even if it's false fairness, false justice.
The Federation is a magical society, yet it is also a "placebo effect society." These false senses of fairness and justice are placebos distributed by the Federation Government to numb the public, preventing them from considering making any changes.
