[Iarwain]

To answer your question about the unicorns, Lailath, these people do not think that unicorns, or even necessarily magic exists. They have taken on the typical fear of the unknown. People hate what they cannot control, and they cannot control what they do not understand, thus they hate the things that mysterious to them. In the past, there have been strict, well backed up arguements about the wrongness of magic. In fact there still are, but many people do not know about them or where to look for them. They have been left with the fact that witchcraft is evil, and no reason why. This is when the public criticism (as displayed by many of you) kicks in, scorning these people and institutions for seemingly ridiculous bans. Also, since the people against witchcraft do not have reasons to be so, they push their bans and protocols further and further to the point of irrationality (i.e. the ban on unicorn T-shirts).

I just want you to know that there was and still is a reason for these fears, just as there was a reason for so many people being killed in the Salem witch trilals. That, however, takes into the realm of spirituality, and then theology, and then Christianity, which many of you do not believe in, so I'll leave it there. However, if any of you are intereested just PM me.

Iarwain

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