Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "Trope Talk: Magic" video.
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Some problem needs to be addressed when having magic in your world:
If anyone can theoretically learn magic, and magic is powerful, then after a few hundred years it's likely, that some crazy idiot will learn magic and destroy everything.
A society, where everyone has much power, which cannot be controlled well, will most likely destroy itself.
In our world, many people have access to power, for example in a bunch of countries many people have deadly shooting weapons.
But a single person can just kill a bunch of persons, until they are killed themselves, since most people don't want someone to use the power in such a way, and are able to prevent it.
And our super weapons are mostly in the control of a few people, and it's not that easy for some crazy idiot, who doesn't care about the world, to get full access to them, so it's not that likely to happen.
But in a world, who anyone could get powers much stronger than pistols, maybe even at the level of nuclear bombs, it's likely they will just destroy themselves.
So defense magic might be the only way not to die. So if there is a powerful magic system, the defense would most likely have to be stronger than the attack.
Or alternatively it could be very complicated to use powerful magic.
If only very intelligent people, who are happy with their life and normally don't want the world to be destroyed, are able to learn the powerful types of magic, they probably won't destroy the world.
If you spent many years of your life to get good at magic, would you really want to destroy everything?
Or would you rather want to help your people, rule the world or have "fun" using your powers in a sustainable way?
Remember, even if you plan to destroy the world in the long run, there will be other macicans, who will probably kill you before.
So it wouldn't be a good idea to start doing evil things in the world and be discovered shortly afterwards.
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