"Well, if you're the authorities, you know you're not seers, so if someone's in trouble and can't call you, there's no way for you to get to them. Even if we can come up with something like a sneakoscope to at least warn of danger before it's too late, that'll make all the difference in the world. And at least we'll have tried."
He snorted at the comment about being compromised. "You obviously don't know me, or else you'd know I'm always compromised by my emotions. I don't call it being compromised, though - I call it being human. My emotions are who I am, so I own them - that way they don't own me. Most of the time, anyway."
He looked meaningfully at the book the bloke had been fingering through. "So, is there something useful in there?"