"Sure. But I wasn't thinking on the individual level and I don't trust the PR thing to be consistent globally. I was thinking on the population, mostly economic level. Art and culture and history have never mattered when there was a population to exploit. Magic is intensely useful and must be learned from critters and the critter-aware, it can't just be stolen or conscripted or ignored. I think that if critters present themselves as 'here we are, we want to do the world stage thing, now, trade you magic powers, by the way we don't recommend trying to kill us because we have powers you don't fully understand', the outlook is a lot better than if magic's already spread around and critters are going 'we're a fluffy minority, you will not be outcompeted by your neighbors if you decide to drive us out or kill us or ignore us, want some art'."
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Date: 2016-02-18 10:45 pm (UTC)