Challenge.

There are those on this site who have demonstrated to themselves and those close to them they have the power.

I have a dream that folk with such power and in combination can effectively change the world so here's the challenge.

Collectively we bring down the ruling junta of Burma (Myanmar) and restore the elected president Aung San Suu Kyi to power.

Firstly is this an abuse of our powers?

Secondly, if it's not, then shall we do it?

Greylights

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Hmm... I think the simplest reason magicians shouldn't mess with free will is that it's so incorrigible -- every dictatorship that falls is just a drop from a giant seeping pustule of potential dictators. If Aung San Suu Kyi isn't president now, it's because not enough people (or specific people with political powers) have come around to how good that goal is, and make the effort under their own steam. If we do that for them, then once the casters are gone or relaxing, I'll bet things will soon fall back to the way they used to be somewhere with nobody the wiser.

To go ahead with it anyway is bound to be difficult. I've been in a similar discussion that went "Why don't we just do psychic attacks on Osama bin Laden?" and the consensus was, for everyone casting or even praying for his defeat, there are so many others giving him protective psychic energy with their admiration for or fear of him.

The only successful case I've heard of using magic in politics was the occult effort in the darkest days of World War II that involved Dion Fortune's coven (among others.) It was kind of like Bedknobs & Broomsticks, except the effort contributed to her early death... and, I've heard, others died in the Work from exposure to the elements-- giving their lives to the land and the people's victory.

Good luck, though, finding people who are both adept and altruistic. (Like, " die for a bunch of strangers in a far-off land, for an abstract ideal" kind of altruism, and not just sympathy.)
The preferred magical battles for those with the power seem to be more like Crowley versus Mathers -- at least that has some glory in it. British witches versus the Axis powers, on the other hand... who remembers them?

O_o I do not even know who the person is....