Lotion Soronnar wrote...
draxynnus wrote...
1) Mages are also people. Tanks don't mind being locked up. They won't get restless and possibly rebel over being treated in an inhumane manner. People will.
But they are also tanks. They are not just people. You cannot treat them liek regular people, casue tehy're nto regular people. That is illogical.
But they
are people, even if they have unusual abilities. Treating people inhumanely only leads to problems - and even if those problems have been contained every time up to now doesn't mean they will
continue to be. How close did Broken Circle come to spilling out into the countryside? What about the Redcliffe situation?
Both were, ultimately, the result of the system, and the system barely prevented it in one case (and in my proposal the templars would still be
there, just only as police than as judge, jury and executioner), and completely unhelpful in another.
(They're also
not tanks - mages are still fairly fragile, after all, hence my comparison to a guy with a rocket launcher instead. Unless they're Arcane Warriors.
)
2) You exaggerate their power. Mages are much closer to someone with a bunch of explosives - maybe a grenade launcher - than a tank. Explosives are legal to use in the right environments, with the proper permits - and you certainly don't get locked up just for knowing how to make them. While they're on the border of what is and isn't legal for a common citizen, we come back to the point that explosives won't get resentful about being locked up (although some might explode if stored incorrectly).
I'm not exaggerating their power. Some high-level spells are monstrous. Not to mention that their power is fluff-wise greater than it is in-game (for balance reasons).
This is all without touching on the aspect of blood magic OR turning into an abomination.
The destruction a mage could cause is nothing a few strategically placed vans full of fertiliser derivates couldn't do - and you're also talking about high-level magic that most mages aren't going to have. Are we going to lock up everyone who has even the slightest grasp of basic chemistry just because they might someday make a bomb?
So you'd have mages living among normal human with hit squads coming in if htey go beserk? By that time it would be too late. If a mage or an abomination levels the whole village, lives have already been lost. It simply cannot work that way.
Seriously? Excretia occurs, in fantasy universes and in reality. One person with a bomb or a gun can kill a
lot of people before the authorities can arrive to deal with them. The hypothetical rogue mage would not be much worse, when you get down to it. In fact, the current system is
already littered with plenty of rogue mages around the place (that "abandoned warehouse" in Denerim comes to mind) that it's not like it's doing anything to prevent it anyway.
Make sure that you
can ensure that any rogue mage can be stopped (even if there are some casualties beforehand) and that mages aren't kept in conditions that
encourage them to rebel, and I expect the situation would be no worse than in the modern world - you get the occasional loony that kills a few (or even a lot) of people before being taken down, but on the whole people are more likely to be killed in a random mugging than by a mage going postal.
Your arguments, applied to the modern world, would only result in a police state. That in Thedas it only applies to a minority doesn't make it any better, especially since all evidence suggests that it fundamentally
doesn't work.
Actually, let's extend that minority concept. Should every person of Arabian descent in a Western country be locked up because they
might be a terrorist? Apart from being a massive human rights violation, would it
really help things if they were?
Modifié par draxynnus, 25 janvier 2010 - 08:16 .
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