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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7880144" data-attributes="member: 53980">That's not the case here though. The OP has stated that using magic against people is difficult. Pretty sure that mind control was specifically called out as being extremely difficult. Additionally, the magic is explicitly skill based. Even an average person has the capacity to learn basic spells that can improve their day to day lives.It doesn't matter whether magic users would be barred from office so long as they have a strong lobby. And I think they'd have an extraordinarily strong lobby, for the reasons I've already mentioned upthread. You don't need to be able to cast a spell to be pro magic. You just need to value your mind reading tv or the fact that magic solar panels can eliminate the country's dependence on oil nearly entirely. Going back to the pearls, yes a pearl can have value. However, apart from its subjective value and perhaps aesthetic quality, it does not provide any convenience of itself. You might be able to sell a pearl to buy a magical fork that makes any food you eat with it the most delicious thing you've ever tasted, but it is the magic fork in this example that has real value as a convenience. The pearl is simply a possible means to obtaining that convenience. The convenience is arguably the thing of real value here. Would you trade access to all media (internet, tv, books, etc) for ten million dollars? I don't think I would. To me the enjoyment provided by those forms of entertainment far exceeds 10 million dollars. Similar situation with the pearl and the magic convenience. You can potentially ban certain forms of "currency". Some people might grumble but it really doesn't impact the average person. But no one can save the idiot who tries to ban TV. (Referring to free societies here.) You can have my pearls, but you'll take my magic fork of overwhelming deliciocity only when you pry it from my cold, dead fist. That's just the nature of people, at least in my experience. (Obviously I'm speaking sociologically; specific individuals may vary.)</blockquote>

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