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That's "helix", actually. And no, they might not be comfortable working with him (though they might surprise you), but there's also the question of what *he*'d think of a society in which the only real government is a quasi-military organization whose every member can read minds and whose upper-echelon members can do considerably more than that? Sure, they're fundamentally incorruptible, but Doug wouldn't know that at first... and would probably have a hard time believing it in any case.
"So you're not Gods, you just play them in real life... Right..."
I'm guessing that doug would politely excuse himself, find a gate song (_any_ gate song), and get the hell out of there before they decided he was a problem that had to be dealt with.
(Please note I've never read any of the lensmen books, but based on what has been posted in this thread alone that's what _I'd_ do too... Light and Dark are never absolutes (saith the physicist )
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