"Dear Daron, perhaps I should better state the issue in this manner." Frederic paused to properly formulate this assertion, but suddenly chose a different means to continue the conversation. Daron didn't respond well to being outright told that he was wrong, even if he was. He had to help lead him to this conclusion on his own. "See, what you are looking to do is reform the sinister men whom you speak of now. You want to end their criminal actions. But you already have one Church here and you see that you all attend it faithfully. You all profess your faith but several seem to lack the ability to adhere to it. If these men who act in this way do so without fear of being dishonest to the truly highest of authority, how do you expect them to respect you?"
"Freddy, Fred. You overthinkin this. Listen to me again - I want to make the bad guys the good guys. Ain't got nothin to do with the Lord or the Church. It's about a ... a name. A title. Those bad folks... they bad because we just say they bad. But that's just them doin what they know to do. They doin what they done to live. Ain't no other way they will. So that's how we fight it - by making it our own."
Frederic stared blankly and unable to speak for an extended moment. He felt that this idea which Daron was stating was now losing basis in reality.
"I... I fail to comprehend you. You are just going to decide to let lawlessness be the law? You are going to simply let rule be set by anarchists? That is impossible, that is prepos-"
"No, no, see, not all lawlessness. There will be law, yes. There will always be law. And there will always be folk who try to get around the law. So, here's the thing to do. What you do is, you say to a certain part of those folk, you tell them that their lawlessness is acceptable. You see? There ain't no cops where there ain't no robbers. There ain't no robbers without cops on em. They on the same coin. What we do is we mint that coin. Ha ha, see! See it!"
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