#issy speaks

It’s like i understand the idea because healing with magic is a slippery slope that would snowball into really f-ed up stuff, after all just remembering details about human history with war crimes and human and animal experimentation is enough to get the idea across, but there are probably so many ‘incurable’ disabilities and diseases that would have a cure if only people learned how to identify and treat it.

So much knowledge about magical medical treatments was forgotten and so imagine how many people died from things that wouldn’t even be considered a threat years ago. A practical example: if scientists had lost the knowledge of medicine, would they have created the vaccine for covid? Probably yes, but it would have taken years or decades instead of the two years it took, and many more lives would have been lost.

The situation with Qifrey and Custas would definitely be solved quicker if magical medicine still existed. I mean, a parasitic disease that spreads everytime its host feels peace? That sounds like an infection to me.

And honestly I really doubt memory erasing is a solution that would actually solve anything long term. Because unless you are like Olruggio, who is an outlier and should not count, nobody would be willing to get their memory erased after learning about the secrets of magic. And realistically, the Knights of Moralis cannot be everywhere all the time, there’s bound to be people who escaped notice and are quietly doing magic out of public eye. And the danger of that is, guess what?, accidentally doing magic that has bigger consequences than what they are able to control (Coco) or manipulated for it (Custas). And both of their situations could have been avoided if magic was public knowledge and they’ve been taught about its danger.

But then again, it all began because people could not control themselves and i dont really want to imagine what a truly horrible people would do with “nuclear” weapons at ready.