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- Finland
That's a lot of words to say that dampening is not safe.Slight nitpick here, dampening is perfectly safe, hence why plenty of Empire nobles discreetly get it done for heirs who turn out to have magical potential. The risk with dampening is that dangling magical power just out of a person's reach for their entire life will often lead to them trying to do self-study as a 'magicker' and either blow themselves up or end up on the pyre.
Dampening is not safe, because all the reasons you have stated.
If there was a way to permanently remove magical potential, then that might be an option, but as is, just putting some jewelry on an untrained child is not safe.