Talk:Normalcy Manipulation/@comment-26517627-20151210035446/@comment-24729606-20190119144121

I would just like to point out that one doesn't need a power to turn the "average joe" and (for the sake of inclusivity) the average jane into soldiers. As uprisings the world over have demonstrated all it seems to take is a cause one cares passionately about, a gullible disposition (or one with a sufficiently motivating ism at the end), and relatively easy access to armaments to turn otherwise placid civilians into soldiers for something. Now having said this I do not support civilians with armaments unless it is a matter of legitimate survival (for example if one lives in a location where store bought goods are so far away that hunting and growing one’s own sustenance is more tenable). Besides with all the illusory boundaries, groupings, and categorizations societies the world over has created over the last few decades alone (to say nothing of humanities all too bloody history of doing so in centuries and millennia past, albeit without electronic media to propandize their viewpoint). We have enough civilian volatility already and little enough legitimate understanding of each other to make easy access to armaments an unwise proposition.