Maryoku Mugen no Manaporter - Vol. 2 Ch. 11

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Is this a plan that typically works? Get the criminal with obvious face markings to try to sell shady wares to a village in need?

I get that they probably don't have much choice (if not for Ishua) but I would hope most village chiefs would see a group of people with criminal markings and go "hmm, maybe they don't have our best interests in mind".
 
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Is this a plan that typically works? Get the criminal with obvious face markings to try to sell shady wares to a village in need?

I get that they probably don't have much choice (if not for Ishua) but I would hope most village chiefs would see a group of people with criminal markings and go "hmm, maybe they don't have our best interests in mind".
Criminals gonna crime~
 
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Is this a plan that typically works? Get the criminal with obvious face markings to try to sell shady wares to a village in need?

I get that they probably don't have much choice (if not for Ishua) but I would hope most village chiefs would see a group of people with criminal markings and go "hmm, maybe they don't have our best interests in mind".
O . o?

There are entire industries built around this concept here on Earth. Even ignoring the scams con men use to fleece their victims, we have a food industry that pumps out highly addictive food. A marketing industry that convinces you to spend. And a pharmaceutical industry that not only convinced us all we need antidepressants, but also weight loss drugs, pain killers, insulin, and any number of recreational drugs.

Point is that "the cure for X" scam is as old as there has been sick people. Just Google snake oil if you wana go down a rabbithole.
 
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O . o?

There are entire industries built around this concept here on Earth. Even ignoring the scams con men use to fleece their victims, we have a food industry that pumps out highly addictive food. A marketing industry that convinces you to spend. And a pharmaceutical industry that not only convinced us all we need antidepressants, but also weight loss drugs, pain killers, insulin, and any number of recreational drugs.

Point is that "the cure for X" scam is as old as there has been sick people. Just Google snake oil if you wana go down a rabbithole.
I feel like insulin shouldn't be included in that list. By the time someone tells you 'you need insulin', you're at the point where you take it or parts of you start to rot off. There is no pushing or convincing, you need it or you don't. For antidepressants, yeah, but also keep in mind that a lot of the time it's patients that treat it that way and it's often hard to get docs to start you on even the low-risk starter antidepressants. They're meant to be more like a 'pickmeup', so you actually have the energy to start doing all the other stuff they tell you to do to actually solve some of your problems. They aren't supposed to be permanent or something you rely on but if you don't follow through, that's how they end up.
 
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Alan really should have been executed.
Why didn't MC examine people in the City 1st?

Thanks for the TL
There are some people who argue that prisons are inhumane and should’ve been banned from the world already. They also say that prisons don’t stop someone from committing a crime (and I agree with that). BUT, a prison takes the criminal off the streets, preventing them from committing more crimes. If Alan and those other criminals with him had been locked up instead of just getting a "mark," it would’ve already stopped them from spreading this disease to sell fake medicine.

About the death penalty, I think it’s only acceptable when the crime someone committed is truly serious. In Alan’s case, I don’t think his crimes were severe enough to deserve that punishment.
 
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About the death penalty, I think it’s only acceptable when the crime someone committed is truly serious. In Alan’s case, I don’t think his crimes were severe enough to deserve that punishment.
His crimes weren't severe enough? He lied to the king, to try to cover up that lie he nearly ended the world, and then tried to flee from punishment for doing so when he realised he really fucked up.
 
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Is this a plan that typically works? Get the criminal with obvious face markings to try to sell shady wares to a village in need?

I get that they probably don't have much choice (if not for Ishua) but I would hope most village chiefs would see a group of people with criminal markings and go "hmm, maybe they don't have our best interests in mind".

Criminals and bootleggers are known to sell 'hard-to-find' items at exorbitant prices, plus I bet they're counting on everyone being too much desperate (since they don't know what happened) to care about the prices or checking the stuff.

Something that unfortunately often happens in RL...
 

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