Mesina2 wrote...
Johnny_TYS38 wrote...
If mages are so dangerous as what you have said, Why not just kill them during infancy or once they have been discovered the ability to use magic? Why give them false hope? By doing that,no one has to deal with any problem at all. No more mages, no need for establishment of the circle, no need for templars, the conflict will not have happen.
Here are a few reasons why not:
1. Genocide is obviously ethically and morally wrong and definitely way worse then infringement of rights.
2. For every bad mage, there are 9 other good mages. They don't all deserve to die, just for bad minority.
3. Mages are very useful to societies, as they can do many things that non-mages can't.
The problem is, when 1 out of 10 mages goes bad it's like a tank going rouge. Worse of all, if it turns into abomination. Then it's a tank with ICBM missiles( yes, I'm blatantly stealing someone's allegory on that).
And good mages can become an abomination, usually due to fear of certain death by younger mages.
And then there's blood magic, in which sometimes good mages use it out of desperation or thinking they're too good to fall under demons. Most of the time, they do fall under demons.
The Circle is there to protect everyone from those dangers. Both mages and non-mages. And it worked well for a long time, but now it needs to reform it's system or be replaced by other similar but better system.
1. Agreed. Genocide is wrong on all levels. I was just trying to be sarcastic
2. I would agree with you but people are taking all those example of bad mages and using them as evidence that mages should be treated like prisoner
3. There are benefits of magic like being a healer that can treat injuries and illness, enchanting and many others things.
This where the templars should be doing their job, defending against the dangers of magic and demons, not acting like bullys. I felt that blood magic is like walking along a line of good and bad. There benefits of blood magic and there are also risk and dangers of blood magic.
The orginal intenions of the circle are good. Protecting mages from themselves and educating them to use their gifts in a proper way but as times passes, power and authority shift to the templars most of the time, they abuse it. I agree that the middle ground that will be able to resolve the conflict would be to reform the old system such that both side will be treated as equal.
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