Darkannex wrote...
Helden - your logic falls apart on the fact that you can substitute ANY thing there.
A rich person can use their family name and influence to help that family member in trouble out.
They could even hire a hit man to take care of things.
Someone exceptionally gifted in fighting could just go and kill someone that made them angry. Heck - even your CHAMPION can do such senseless things. Let's lock up all warriors, right?
You cannot condemn as a whole an entire race/group of people just because SOME in that group do badly. And that Jedi thing worked out real well didn't it? They lived happily ever after.
...oh wait. No. Because they denied someone the ability to be natural, it blew up in their faces and he went bonkers.
But even he got redeemed in the end. He was a glowy good spirit at the rolling credits.
My point is essentially that obviously the circle doesn't work. Obviously the Tevinter way doesn't work. Why can't something else happen? Why only these two extremes?
I wouldn't say that my logic falls apart. A mage is no more prone than any other person in power or without power would be. The danger comes from their ability to be possessed by demons; that is why they are treated differently. Whereas an average warrior can butcher an entire family and never become an abomination, a mage could kick a puppy and suddenly turn into a walking beacon of death and destruction.
And essentially, if you want to go back to my Jedi example, the reason it all fell apart was because the boy let his emotions get in the way. Because he wanted to protect the woman he loved, he went down a very dark path. What he did caused horrors throughout the galaxy. It wasn't because the Order was 'repressing' him, it was because he violated the tenants that keep them along the proper path. He gave in to rage when his mother was killed, pride when he was not given the rank he felt he deserved and fear when his woman was endangered. It wasn't because he wasn't allowed to be human, it was because he was "human" when he was in fact far more powerful than the average man.
As I said before, the addage is, with great power comes great responsibility. Responsibility doesn't mean just doing the right thing, it often means sacrificing things that you want and love for the better of whole. Anders forgot that responsibility; that while the subjugation of mages isn't the perfect way to go about it, absolute liberation is no better.
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I'd rather just be silly and call it the "poop bomb". It helps take away some of the sting of that scene.
