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Rtron said
Alright.

My connection sucks to .ca urls.

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Rtron, when I connect to the pad, I'm copy-pasting it into a Titanpad and sending you the link.

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Konan375 said
Hello.

Qu'est-ce que tu fais?

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Hello?

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EliteCommander said
I remember reading a study once that selfish behavior is evolutionarily unfavorable in the long run, so that is an argument which has merit.Although, the psychopath thing isn't quite spot on. Rather, increased wealth has a tendency to lead to decreased empathy. People tend to compare themselves to their peers, and since the peers of the wealthy are often other wealthy people, their perspective shifts into a small bubble of society that they have a hard time seeing out of.

There's been no significant evidence to support that increased wealth leads to decreased empathy, and, in fact, there have been several case studies of people with a large amount of wealth being more empathetic, such as the tendency of celebrities to help those in need through charities. The issue lies in corporations, and those are generally run by psychopaths. I would recommend The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson for more info on the matter, it's a great read.

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Leon5431 said
Just look at the real world for example. Us humans are greedy, if someone kind comes along we will consume and abuse them till they are depleted, it's human nature. We do cruel things to others so our lives can be better.

No, that's not human nature. Human nature is to search for any alternative to hurting people in search of self-betterment before resorting to those things that do. It's a common misconception that humanity is cruel, because in the modern world, those in power are corporations. Corporations are almost always run by psychopaths, and it is a psychopath's nature to be cruel and manipulative for the purposes of self-betterment, which is why they run the corporations in the first place. They are the only ones with no apprehension as to what they'll do to win. However, most people who work for the corporations are governed by Human Nature, and that is to be kind and generous whenever you can, or at least feel bad when you do something that hurts others.

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Leon5431 said
I don't think its like the Skyrim mage's college at all, because the mages there are never attempted to be eradicated like the mages were in Dragon Age 2.

There's different types of eradication. The Mage's College in Skyrim shows push factors of peer harassment and a general sense of get-the-hell-away-or-we-will-kill-you-all, whereas the mages in Dragon Age 2 were just murdered flat out.

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Leon5431 said
Just look at the Dragon age series. That's the perfect example. Mages get alienated and locked away because they are too powerful and cannot be trusted, not to mention that if they can easily be possessed by demons.

To a lesser extent, the Mage's College in Skyrim can serve as an example, as well.

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Lucius Cypher said
All magic relies on Archanite, in some way or form. And even if technology will have a hard time replacing more specialized magic, there are other ways to lose them. Like simply killing off all those who practice it.As Satori's demonstration showed, not everyone likes the idea that someone could go poking into your head or give you horrible nightmares. People would get killed just to make sure it doesn't happen.Demonmancers would likely get hit hard from this due to the inherent nature of demons and would be hunted down to prevent Demons from entering out world. Not that it'll stop them, but it's the thought that counts.Noxomancers are in the same boat as Psychomancers; they share a similar blood, so they'll be hunted down at the risk they too will become Psychomancers.And so on and so forth. But that's just in the realms of possibilities, who knows what the future holds for us. Maybe magic and technology could go hand-in-hand and live long and prosper. Isn't that what you students are suppose to ensure happens?

[coughcough]Cynn[/coughcough]

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Konan375 said
Cynn has.

Thanks for that, I wouldn't have been able to see it before right now.