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by diminoten 2757 days ago
"Summoned" implies it's only possible for people who know the arcane secrets, I'm not personally a fan of removing people's agency when talking about something like this.
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Removing agency is exactly what you should do when you're talking about a widespread problem. If I have a personal friend I'm absolutely going to tell them they can make the right choices and overcome their problems, but you can't do that with a society. You have to look at incentives and environment and change those to change widespread behavior.
In some cases at least consider this is like discussing the agency of a person addicted to narcotics.
Generally, no.