>The latter part of the manga revolves around the ban on wizards practising medicine.Coco is deeply dissatisfied with the prohibition on wizards using magic to heal patients.Meanwhile, Coco’s close friend Tartah has become utterly disillusioned with the wizard community, leading him to join the Brimmed Caps.Furthermore, in the manga, wizards refer to those who can and cannot use magic as‘wizards’ and ‘humans’.This is a deliberate attempt to portray magicians as a distinct race, separate from humanity.Yet magicians are merely skilled in drawing; consequently, they have come to believe they are not human.This is essentially nothing more than academic elitism, creating a special class of magic-users by deliberately monopolising access to knowledge.The misled common folk genuinely believe magicians to be a distinct race, leading them to begin worshipping them.The author repeatedly hints that Coco will be tempted by darkness and fall into becoming a dark witch.Because she is a good girl, she cannot bear to stand by and watch an injured person die simply because of legal constraints.Ultimately, this leads the girl to begin breaking the taboo.How much longer will it be before I get to see Coco turn into a bad girl?
>>288485918It's not bad when a small group of high skilled experts are the only ones that can using extremely dangerous but useful magic.They don't have to be evil, exactly as IRL experts who work with the most dangerous viruses on planet etc.BUT they absolutely must take the utmost precautions during such experiments. Not something like "lets make a hybrid of flu, hiv and rabies and store it in a jar on the shelf"
>>288485918Coco will never become a 'bad' witch, in that her motivations are fundamentally and ironclad about helping others. But she will, and indeed already has, pushed against the rules and laws of witch society in order to try and maximize the good she can do and to alleviate as much suffering as possible.Coco's morality is more important to her than witch law is. If witch law gets in the way of her saving someone's life, she would absolutely tell witch law to go fuck itself and deal with the consequences later. But, for now at least, she does everything she can to do good *within* the rules, or arguable interpretations of them, because she doesn't stand to gain from becoming a criminal.But if, say, Coco found that the only way to save her mom was to use forbidden magic? Thats not a dilemma. The answer is easy. She'd do it, at least as long as it didn't involve something dumb like sacrificing someone else to save her mom. That would give her pause. But if the only 'cost' is "you broke the rules" then she's going to break the rules because the rules are dumb.
>>288486041Really, a big part of what has made problems for witch society is the absolutism of it. Anything that is forbidden is 100% forbidden, without exception or allowing for circumstances, which is always going to be incongruous with reality. Reality is full of exceptions, almost nothing works on pure absolutes. You already have witch permissions based on passing tests. There just needs to be a second, much stricter, level of teaching and apprenticeship coming for a tightly controlled and limited number of spots where certain kinds of forbidden magic can be used. Like saying that there are a handful of magical doctors, and only they are allowed to know and perform any kind of medicinal magic specifically because its so dangerous and so much can go wrong. Its still a crime for anyone else to do it, but the existence of these magical healers acts as a relief valve for the social pressures that otherwise stem from banning it. I'm not sure what other forms of forbidden magic would likewise deserve specialists but if nothing else you should probably have someone whose job is to know forbidden magic of all kinds, but he's not allowed to use it himself. Like, cut off his fingers so he can't draw but use him as a living repository of forbidden magic information. Because eventually, some day, you are going to find yourself in a situation where forbidden magic might be necessary. In that situation you consult the Forbidden Sage, he instructs a specific person to draw the magic to solve the problem, and then when the task is done the chosen spellcaster gets their memory of the last week erased so they don't know what they drew and you put the forbidden sage back in his tower.
>>288485918Dorky hat
>>288486348It's better to have a forbidden magic book hidden in basement.But IMO there should be some research but performed by a group of the best wizards and with a strict safety measures.
