The science of chiravesa

Though there's nothing in it about empathy that I didn't know. I very much like some of the programs it mentioned, though, especially the one with moms and babies in the schools, and the former gang-members mentoring younger ones.

The big conflict for Yeolis is, how to reconcile that loving, everyone's-point-of-view-is-valid ethic with war? If the conflict between Esora-e and Niku were between two Yeolis, they'd do chiravesa... but one of them is a foreigner. Probably Niku could do it well enough, but Esora-e doesn't think she can, so he won't agree. And--a point I should probably make somewhere--Chevenga is hesitant to ask Esora-e to do it with him because then Esora-e would have to imagine himself in love with a foreigner. (Chevenga also, obviously, hasn't been thinking entirely straight for a while.)

There's much more about the empathy-vs.-militarism dilemma in Yeoli culture in asa kraiya.