I appreciate that it makes discussion difficult sometimes, but frankly it's better than the alternative.
The issue is less the question (Can Orange Lantern get the nations of this world to agree to this monitoring method) and more the direct parallels (Nations X, Y and Z have done Shady Thing Q in the real world). If you want to pull examples of shady stuff that has been ascribed to the various fictionalised governments of the DC universe then that should be fine.
Alright, fair enough, I'll do that then.
I'm pretty certain Vaermina won't respond
anyway, but for form's sake I'll correct my argument:
There's no way you are winning that argument given the fundamental rights issue at stake and how few people actually end up as ritual sacrifices every year.
In Paragon-verse, the world
recently suffered a traumatizing attack that effected... basically
everyone. Every parent on e
arth briefly, and sometimes permanently, lost their child. While this has faded from the public attention a
little, it's not as if people have forgotten.
And general magic education is still very poor, despite OL's best efforts. It's entirely possible that a lot of people see magic as "that weird and scary stuff that took my child from me, but some heros also use for good". A person thinking in those terms isn't going to have a lot of objections for a global magic-monitoring system;
they aren't going to be affected, the good guys have nothing to fear, and it helps catch the bad guys.
Furthermore, there's plenty of history of DC governments dropping the ball and pulling shitty or shady stuff. For one, on the U.S. side, there's
Shade, and people like General Hardcastle remain in power. Something like
half of the U.K. governance are participants in a cannibalistic, slavery-using, sacrifice-making, demon-worshipping cult.
Really, "government does something stupid, evil, and probably in violation of basic human rights and dignity" is one of the big comic book tropes.
And, on top of all this, what if OL got the League or other major superheros to vouch for it? That might be a hard sell for some of them, but it'd lend it a lot of credibility if the
major heroic magic users were pushing for it.
