Because while we've failings like anyone else, we understand the struggle and joy of having magic.
[He pauses to try to get his thoughts in order before continuing.]
A Templar can look at a mage and see something beneath them, something they don't recognize as a person. It was easy for them, for so many of them, to injure mages because they weren't mages. They were... disassociated, perhaps might be the word.
In general, we can't do that. I don't think we can look at a pair of mages in love and say it's wrong, it's forbidden, and tear them apart because we want love too. We feel worthy of it. We can't rip a mage child from their parents because we want families and know the pain of losing. We can't sentence another mage to Tranquility because we don't want it used against us. The worst of the horrors and cruelties strike too close to home for us to repeat against our own, I believe.
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[He pauses to try to get his thoughts in order before continuing.]
A Templar can look at a mage and see something beneath them, something they don't recognize as a person. It was easy for them, for so many of them, to injure mages because they weren't mages. They were... disassociated, perhaps might be the word.
In general, we can't do that. I don't think we can look at a pair of mages in love and say it's wrong, it's forbidden, and tear them apart because we want love too. We feel worthy of it. We can't rip a mage child from their parents because we want families and know the pain of losing. We can't sentence another mage to Tranquility because we don't want it used against us. The worst of the horrors and cruelties strike too close to home for us to repeat against our own, I believe.