[ SECRET POST #2759 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2759 ⌋

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Comments

Theory vs Practice, and fuck the racism allegories.

[nyxelestia]

In theory, registering people with extremely dangerous capabilities has a good bit of reason to it. In practice, there is a LOT of room for abuse in that system.

As for the racism metaphors...

In real life, people who are in fact capable of committing threats or potentially likely to ARE ALREADY REGISTERED - just not centrally, so no one notices. Airline pilots who could just drive their plane into a building go through a rigorous amount of security and background checks. People who work in places with lots of access to dangerous chemicals - especially explosive ones - are monitored by various control agencies. People who demonstrate a potential for committing terrorism (i.e. certain online activities) are monitored by the NSA, FBi, CIA, etc on the off chance they act on it. And in more states than not, there is a lot of paperwork and oversight associated with running a gun shop, because imagine the damage the shop owner would be able to do if they decided to really USE their guns.

So let's take out the born with it aspect for a second and focus on just "people who are highly capable of doing dangerous things without much effort/trouble". We already have people like that registered and monitored.

However, in all those cases there is an element of choice with it, and with it an element of control.

So on the one hand, mutants don't have a choice in being mutants, and with it they wouldn't get a choice in being registered. On the other hand - not all of them have control, either. You can have the sweetest, most pacifistic and well-meaning kid in the world - if they have the ability to make things explode just by looking at it and they can't control it, then there needs to be a system to ensure that someone can keep the kid from anywhere dangerous until they get a grip on that power.

So I definitely believe that if mutants were real, registration would need to be, too - but with it, there would need to be lots of invovement with the mutant community, confidentiality and security around the registry (if nothing else, you don't want actual terrorists to kidnap and exloit the aforementioned hypothetical mutant kid), and a host of other, smaller conditions to go with registration.

As for the cure...

The comic it appeared in featured mutants whose lives had been destroyed by their mutations, literally begging for the cure.

Forcing a medical solution is never right, but neither is preventing it completely. Is weaponizing the cure a big, potential problem? Absolutely. But so are many people's mutations, for themselves and for their loved ones.