I'm not debating the point. But that's a problem of your fellow man, not the tools at our disposal. Give someone a rock and they'll bash a head in, take away the rock, they'll do it with their fists. Yet I won't leap to condemn stone houses.

Instead of circling the pessimistic drain, perhaps we can consider the facts at hand:

Some of us came here with magic of our own. It exists, apparently separate but intact, from that magic which saturates this world. This realm's magic is used widely, and given more freely than might be expected, or wise.

[ He grants, with a nod that Ron can't see. ]

What constructive ideas can we draw from this?