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The First Law of Magic In-Play: Semi-Official Advice

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Mrmdubois:
Luccio specifically says that the Laws and the Council are not about good or evil, but about limiting power, and if they happen to do a little good along the way then so much the better.

So, no, I don't agree with you.

I do however agree with you that the use of black magic also happens to be corruptive.  Of course since all magic that you perform reinforces a pattern of thought and behavior because you believe in it entirely...well, depending on your ethics then there's a lot of "legal" soul corrupting magic that people perform all the time.

Tedronai:

--- Quote from: Mrmdubois on May 15, 2013, 07:02:32 AM ---Luccio specifically says that the Laws and the Council are not about good or evil, but about limiting power, and if they happen to do a little good along the way then so much the better.
--- End quote ---
This is the perspective of the leader of the Wardens of the White Council.  Understandably, it espouses the purposes of the Laws as enforced by the Council, rather than the truth of the Laws as a metaphysical fact of the Dresdenverse.

Mrmdubois:
It doesn't deny the metaphysical reality either as much as say that it's irrelevant to the purpose of the Laws.

Tedronai:
It's irrelevant to the purposes of the Laws from the perspective of the Council.

The Laws are two entirely different things that happen to overlap.

There are the Laws that the Council enforces, for which you may or may not be executed, and there are the Laws as metaphysical truths, which affect you regardless of what the Council thinks.  The fact that these Laws typically coincide is mere coincidence.

Metaphysical truths have purpose (or not) entirely independant from any mortal political group.

Mrmdubois:
I never denied the metaphysical truths, I just said they aren't pertinent to the purpose of the Laws.

For instance, using magic to perform a bank robbery is going to leave you with the experience and know how to commit another bank robbery more easily in the future and because you've done it once before you have set a precedent for doing it again.  A metaphysical truth about the corruption of the individual using Lawbreaking magic could be applied to you, but you haven't broken any Laws.

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