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Gheb posted...

You do realize that quarantine rules are pretty strictly defined specifically to prevent civil rights abuses, right?

They are also done during active danger,

In the world of the X-men everyone is constantly in active danger. Due to the super-powered mutants.

Sure Toad is no threat but any of the dudes who can control minds or minerals or weather or whatever the fuck Pheonix can do...

You are calling for the neutralization of a group of people who could be a danger but have yet to do so. You can't even call it thought crime because the victims don't even need to have had dangerous thoughts to be neutralized.

Being able to kill people with your thoughts brings a whole new meaning to "thought crime" so I hope you appreciate that irony.

Also when does someone hit neutralization threshold. Obviously you consider omega level powers to be above it, but what about someone like Shadowcat. She couldn't harm many people, but the nature of her power makes her a huge intelligence risk to the government. Should she be neutralized? I just want to know when your human rights stop mattering.

Guess it depends on the canon and the power. But something along the lines of registration, monastery life, power inhibitting drugs, lobotomization

If you have the option to remove powers they are removed, if not then you get taken to a facility. If you refuse then you are neutralized.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

The problem is that the vast majority of mutants are non-violent and even cooperative, until society shuns, ridicules and even actively tries to kill them, pushing them over the edge.

Even more reason to respond to the threat.

Picard was the most cooperative and friendly mutant of them all (arguably) and he was drugged into nearly killing everyone.

And what would happen if Hamas had a leader who could do the same thing?

If you want to go "They are mature and non violent and want to co-operate" then they would understand why safeguards are needed and support them.

Or at least not feel that people who do are "evil"

Again you're comparing Storm to a Lesbian in terms of discrimination and then ignoring that Lesbians can't control the weather.

Gheb posted...

You know what would be a good way to ensure she does? Trying to abduct her as an innocent teenager.

All we would be doing is giving mutants reasons to fear and attack people. If doing nothing wrong is still cause for being detained, why would any mutant ever want to work with people?

Mutants are always going to have a reason to fear and attack people.

Neto was a free man and he tried to murder Nixon.
Picard was a free man and he was seconds away from commiting genocide against the entire human race. Then later he accidentially killed all his friends including a bunch of kids.
Jean Gray is mentally ill and would have killed everyone sooner or later.
Unchecked Mutants being free leads to the poisoning of Mutants that wipes them out.

How did you feel when your girlfriend dumped you? Or if you can't relate to that, how did you feel when you were driving to work and someone stole your parking space?

Or some ass steals your wallet and runs off.

Now what do you think will happen if you had the power to summon volcanoes?

What's Susie going to do when Derrick breaks up with her and then later she sees Derrick making out with Heather in the park?

Suddenly his dick is being attacked by swarms of wasps.

People are always going to get emotional or angry in life. The point is the literal superpowers
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