Quote Originally Posted by Yuki Akuma View Post
Honestly, all of the things she's talking about are already things that happen. Educating the masses about magic makes them more able to recognise these threats.
But it may also make them happen more, because it becomes easier to get access to magic. Increased recognition does not necessarily equate to increased ability to do anything about it, as noticed by Diane in the specific case of "they catch you by surprise with something that leaves you without enough will to attempt to resist it", and various examples of weapon-spells that resistance wouldn't work on, for which the only thing awareness gets you is increased knowledge that anyone not visibly armed might nevertheless be able to do any number of things. You can't go everywhere protected from all possible threats even without magic, but magic makes the typical "some things are too rare to worry about all the time" judgement much harder by making a wide range of previously unlikely-or-impossible dangers both more common and less visible.