Pantalone: "We mortals have worked for millennia to build a great nation and ensure fair trade, but these Archons can trample them with brute force. Isn't that absurd? Isn't that ridiculous?"

When convincing a valuable employee, he tries to evoke the emotions of the interlocutor so that he understands the absurdity of the archon system. The first half of the sentence emphasizes the deadly effort, and the second half has a slightly indignant tone, although this is an exaggerated expression necessary for his rhetoric.