#WritingWonders July 19: Does your MC support that status quo in their word?
On the one hand: Yes. She lives in a utopia - what's not to like? If it didn't already have two mottos on its letterhead, the Empire could add "We Deliver" (see followup).
On the other hand: No. Because back in ethics & civics class, they covered the whole "how you live in utopia, why it needs constant maintenance, and that the status is never so quo that it can't be made a little *more* quo".
On the gripping hand: Not about elsewhere, because that's where all the crime-type problems come from, as opposed to all the other things she's trained to handle. Their status could *definitely* be made a lot quo-ier.
...not her department. But still.
Also, on the topic of what exactly the Empire delivers?
"Having established as an ethical principle that to be sophont is to be entitled as of right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, it must necessarily follow that the proper function, in accordance with virtue, of the technical organs of a civilization is the abolishment of death, constraint, poverty, and misery."
- "Eternal Progress", Ianthe Claves-ith-Claves, ch. 1.
