Okay then. Reason not to Witch.
Primus. You begin to acquire grief.
Secundus. You have the potential to Grief Spiral and Witch-Out
Tertius. With our characters continual worries about the state of her soul the Witchbomb will likely be the end of us.
Quartus. There really isn't any long term benefit to Witching that can't conceivably be replicated by our Mage abilities.
Quintus. In any setting that has heavy Faustian themes you don't make deals with the Mephistopheles Expy.
Sextus. One of the main reasons for playing this quest is the potential to win without going Magical Girl.
Septimus. The Kyubey system is evil and should not be supported.
Octavius. OOC we know what wishing does so if you purposefully want to inflict that upon a 14 year old girl. Well you know what you're doing.
Nonus. Having a Lich body is kind of Anti-Green
Decimus. Potentially having to spend more Mana to stave off Grief. Jade was able to wipe out a bunch of new Witches with fire. We don't have fire and we're unlikely to hit a giant pocket of new Wiches so any time we are forced to clense it's a waste of mana. Also we don't have our spark to watch clense Mana so we don't even know how to start like Jade was shown.
Almost all of this is OOC knowledge and thus invalid. What
is valid is that Aria expects witches to keep hunting her until she wishes.
Well it was in the translation you gave me. Also you're still overlooking the fact that the Grief may be siphoned off by Kybuey while the wish is being granted.
I answered that later. You disliking the answer isn't ignoring the question. How about this though, Madokami can't witch, but is still using magic.
And again
. The Grief system is the best system for Kyubey. That doesn't mean that he created it. The Greif system may only work the way it is set up. Until you can prove otherwise I don't think you should go around kicking out possibly load-bearing pillars.
He explicitly states that other emotions work and he chose hope-to-grief for efficiency. That means that that was a conscious decision and thus an add on. He as trying to make himself look good to Madoka If the other methods would not have allowed magic,
he would have said so.
Actually he really isn't. He doesn't understand human emotions and his motivations aren't the same as a humans. You can't judge him based on human morality. You can say that he does terrible things but he really isn't a terrible person. He just kind of acts according to motives that we can't agree with but are perfectly reasonable to his race.
Doing terrible things
is what makes one a terrible person. The only way to
not be a terrible person is to never do a
single terrible thing
ever. Him thinking his motivations are reasonable is irrelevant. The only relevant thing is that he deliberately treats others badly.
You're still assuming for a system that works without accumulating Grief without actually providing evidence.
Kyuubey himself says it would work. It would just be less efficient.
The energy source can power magic but that doesn't mean that it is the magic. That source is emotions but emotion aren't magic. They just seem to defy the laws of thermodynamics but that just means that Kyubey in all his wisdom can't figure out how they do so. That doesn't make them magic, that just means he doesn't know the answer.
"Magic" is the term Kyuubey uses to describe violations of his understanding of physics via emotion. You're splitting hairs that don't exist.
The amount of Greif that would most likely be produced by Wishing can easily cause an instant-Witchout. If potential = their max reserves then making a wish equaling their potential wound then equal their reserves and then a Witch appears.
Even assuming this is true, it would be to his advantage to leave
some grief there. Which he never does. And again, he says other emotions would work.
The main point of your entire argument is that Grief is an add-on but you have yet to actually prove that it is not an integral part of the system.
He says himself that it
isn't an integral part f the system. It's just there for efficiency.
Citing yourself is in bad form old chap. Here, have another.
What Ho!
Repeating yourself without citing yourself is self-plagiarism which is the
actual thing that is bad form.
I'm sorry did you just say it's a bad thing to plan ahead when planning for the future?
No He said it's a bad thing for your plans to depend of something ludicrously unlikely.
