Considering how school shootings have yet to change anything in America despite how they become more and more common... Hahahahahaha Afraid not.
South Park even did an episode based around the idea of people becoming desensitized to it over time this year too.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Nov 2nd 2018 at 9:56:11 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.Anything can be mundane if common enough. In a society where most people have quirks they are just as mundane as guns. How useful they are can vary from the very first guns in existence where it was the noise they made that intimidated enemies to mordern day military guns shooting through hordes of bystanders with hundreds of bullets per sec.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Nov 2nd 2018 at 10:01:27 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.Yeah, but we're talking about a time before Quirks became mundane, and people with them were considered monsters.
I wouldn't be surprised if whatever laws existed were loosened over time, but if we're talking about the beginning of Quirks appearing, I can absolutely see some (very likely repressive) laws being enacted.
Edited by LSBK on Nov 2nd 2018 at 12:02:15 PM
Oh yeah, almost definitely, though I can see non-powered rich folk throwing the powered ones to the wolves the moment it was convenient for them.
Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Nov 2nd 2018 at 1:05:35 PM
Oh God! Natural light!Not to downplay power disparity in modern America, but it really just sounds like you're underestimating exactly how much something like millions of people randomly developing superpowers would rock society and what that could potentially mean.
It took Japan how long to get to this point, and they're way more ordered and conformist(?) than the U.S. (for the worse in some aspects, and better in others).
Edited by LSBK on Nov 2nd 2018 at 12:08:14 PM
America is a lot more diverse. If anything this would fracture the nation even more as people already separate into groups. People might even use quirks without combat applications as part of protesting. And the you'd have the ones who'd use them with force.
With Japan its easy cause its already a super conformist country so its much easier for those kinds of rules to stick, even as their current generations are starting to separate from that conformity slowly while the older folk go the other way. There's a reason the Yakuza are heavily attuned to the far right.
Edit: Actually if Japanese Society hasn't really changed despite hundred years and advancement in certain technologies, that's be even more reason why things haven't changed in America. So there'd be Quirk and Gun Shootings.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Nov 2nd 2018 at 10:20:48 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.I will say that at the advent of quirks, it might be that they established reasonable limits on public quirk use- don't do anything destructive, don't disturbs the peace, just don't break any established law- but I can never see a point where it's super strict "use your quirk in public at all and you pay a fine and/or get jail time and/or get a talking-to" like Japan allegedly has
With Japan they also have near perfect guilty verdicts for criminals, even if the means to get it or innocence of the person theyve taken in is ignored. It got so bad cameras were installed to watch the officers.
Edit: Jaywalking is a much bigger deal in Japan and frowned upon.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Nov 2nd 2018 at 10:41:59 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.Tensei's reaction to Kouichi using his Quirk is basically 'you shouldn't do that, but I don't really mind'
Which I figure is the general reaction to small, harmless stuff.
Bewitching EyesMore than anything else, I'm pretty sure the 'US started Quirk registration laws' is just a tongue-in-cheek nod to X-Men.
Bewitching Eyes@Asterism: What I mean is that as far as the media is concerned their roles in the Stain incident are very minor and not worthy of much focus; Endeavor got the lion's share of the press over that.
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I mean, if all of society descended into chaos because a bunch of people started developing superpowers, I think drastic measures would be taken.
But now that they've had like a 100+ years to get used to it, I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of Quirk NRA or whatever existed.