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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 7879800" data-attributes="member: 4303">I'm not too optimistic.Theocratic governments would make it illegal, on punishment of death.Totalitarian governments would leverage it and heavily invest in research, with no thought to ethics.Legislative bodies in secular democracies would ban it more slowly - but I think they'd ban it nonetheless. I think there would be a colossal pushback from the very religious in less pluralistic democracies.Imagine the Satanic Panic of the 80s. Now imagine magic is real.You'd need redrawn constitutions, international accords limiting or restricting the use of magic, provisions in the Geneva Convention etc.Using magic would probably be defined as a terrorist act; possessing it would cause more concern than possessing WMDs.</blockquote>