Well. That didn't quite come across as he'd hoped.]
It's nothing to do with pain being necessary, serah--more, it seems to me your vision of mages being universally just and compassionate to one another is very much grounded in what we'd been through in the Circles. In Tevinter, the Magisterium's got no trouble with rationalizing the abuse of mages who have the misfortune of being born slaves. The Dalish won't hesitate to abandon surplus mage children as a risk to their clan, if there's nowhere else for them to go.
Remember the Circles were a compromise struck with mages to begin with--mages who, I'm sure, had nothing but good intentions when they negotiated the rules we all lived by.
It's not impersonal because we've magic and others don't, though that's a small piece in alienating them from us. It's impersonal because mankind are flawed and sinful and compassion comes easy to no one.
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Well. That didn't quite come across as he'd hoped.]
It's nothing to do with pain being necessary, serah--more, it seems to me your vision of mages being universally just and compassionate to one another is very much grounded in what we'd been through in the Circles. In Tevinter, the Magisterium's got no trouble with rationalizing the abuse of mages who have the misfortune of being born slaves. The Dalish won't hesitate to abandon surplus mage children as a risk to their clan, if there's nowhere else for them to go.
Remember the Circles were a compromise struck with mages to begin with--mages who, I'm sure, had nothing but good intentions when they negotiated the rules we all lived by.
It's not impersonal because we've magic and others don't, though that's a small piece in alienating them from us. It's impersonal because mankind are flawed and sinful and compassion comes easy to no one.