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One of the great things about the practice of magic is that disbelievers never know when magic has been worked upon them.
by Fjolsvith 9y ago
One of the great things about the practice of magic is that disbelievers never know when magic has been worked upon them.
- throwawayjava 9y agoNone-the-less, I don't want my tax money funding studies on the efficacy of gri gri...
- RangerScience 9y agoFuck that, I do, and it'd be pretty goddamn cheap. Likely benefits are training / practice, unlikely benefits are deeper anthropological and jungle-life (why those plants?) understanding, and the Pascal's Mugger benefit is "huh magic...?". And then there's the weird side-benefit of encouraging scientific investigation of all things. Seriously, the biggest expense is going to be shipping the researchers.
- Gravityloss 9y agoWould it be cheaper to send soldiers out with vests or gri-gri? Probably in the west at least, vests are more cost effective. If a soldier is worth a million, one in hundred soldiers is saved by a vest during their career and a vest costs a thousand dollars, it's a ten to one return. But somewhere else, the inputs might be quite different.