No. No type of strength - whether it's magic or military or anything else - should be used to oppress the vulnerable. Under any circumstances. I do agree. And magic has been made into that sort of tool.
[ There. That's diplomatic enough. So she goes on to something a little bit more blunt: ]
If you want to find magic, and spread magic, you must be careful. In the way that...the people in this world who invented the atomic bomb were careful. It is a power that can destroy and ruin lives. Societies. I wish, truly, that magic hadn't ever been loosed in our world. That whoever it was who first thought to capture and bind a spirit had instead simply...stayed in bed that day, found something else to occupy him.
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[ There. That's diplomatic enough. So she goes on to something a little bit more blunt: ]
If you want to find magic, and spread magic, you must be careful. In the way that...the people in this world who invented the atomic bomb were careful. It is a power that can destroy and ruin lives. Societies. I wish, truly, that magic hadn't ever been loosed in our world. That whoever it was who first thought to capture and bind a spirit had instead simply...stayed in bed that day, found something else to occupy him.