[quote=@Letter Bee] Yeah, it's unintentional; I didn't mean anything ill. Hmm, want to help me brainstorm ideas for what I can write about instead? [/quote] That a non-negligible number of people in Egypt were cutting off their hands, fingers, or blinding themselves by dripping rat poison into their eyes to escape enlistment in Muhammad Ali's army or corvee work system, or emigrating from the country all together, and that by and large you control the lands that Muhammad Ali controls now, who would be inhabited by people not at all happy with the fact that now all their shit can be confiscated as the centralized property of the state, his state.