Oh, I believe in it. The simple fact that I'm here to write to you is proof of that. It just doesn't last.
We have the Fabletown Charter in which every character has to sign or else they're banished to the Farm. It's amnesty, if you will. All those dirty deeds back in the Homelands have no effect on you in the mundane world. Or they shouldn't, of course, but old habits die hard. Did you have something like that?