The worst thing to me is that Goodkind has entirely destroyed the credibility of his Imperial Order as a functional society by tacking a Politically Correct ethos onto the back end.
The Imperial Order were basically a rapacious, merciless and blood hungry group who placed the value of a human life somewhat lower than that of a sharp knife and well below that of a good horse.
Whatever one may think of Political Correctness as a doctrine, there is just no way of merging it with Imperial Order philosophy in any way that makes sense, and Goodkind has utterly failed to convince me in his novels that this can be done.
So for the sake of making political points he has sacrificed his entire story, which is just sad, IMO.
