Xenocide by Orson Scott Card - What is the Most Important Line in all of chapter 9?

So I mentioned last week that I was reading Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. Well, not anymore. I finished it. Very quickly. It was a REALLY good book. Now, I am reading the next book in the series, Xenocide, which is obviously also by Orson Scott Card. So far it is great. I would say that thus far it is not quite as good as the one that came before it, but that is still about a 9 out of 10. It is very good. But anyway, I am not here this week to discuss how good it is and why I like it. This week I am going for ANOTHER change. (Amazing, right?) This week I am discussing why the line, "'What's to stop them from declaring that Han Fei-Tzu is a traitor and making him travel to some faraway planet and never come back for sixty years?'" is the most important line in chapter 9, entitled Pinehead (Card, 214).

The reason that this is the most important line is because it starts a heated debate between that two main characters in the chapter, Wang-mu and Qing-Jao. This debate occurs because Qing-Jao, Han Fei-Tzu's daughter, believes that Han Fei-Tzu would never be declared a triator because Starways Congress (The government of all human worlds) would never do that, while Wang-mu insists that they could. Now, this may seem to be unimportant, but Han Fei-tzu is the most respected person on the planet Path, and suggesting that Starways Congress would arrest him is preposterous. However, this does expose a key weakness of the planet Path - while Starways Congress would not do that, they could do it. In fact, they could do anything that they wanted, and the people of the planet Path would be powerless to stop them. That is why this line is the most important in the chapter - it leads to this important realization.

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