STOP CALLING IT QB... calling it out as lying about its name, the LEAST of its lies, plants the seeds of making people THINK. Also, about the implications of egg shaped Soul Gems...
First, it isn't lying about its name. People call it Kyubey so it's a name in that sense, and Kyubey is short for Incubator so it's a name in that sense.
Second, the implications of egg shaped soul gems are exactly why we're never going to call it Incubator around anyone who doesn't already know about witches.
 
New take. "Wishes should be kept private" is a machination of Kyubey.

To some extent - perhaps even a strong extent - this is true. Being able to talk openly to others about your goals and desires is key to achieving those desires in a helpful manner, instead of the kind of spiralling obsession we see so often.

A huge part of the reason that PMAS Kirika and Oriko are much more sane than their canon counterparts is because they had a much more open talk about their wishes and what they wanted.

That said, while I'd like to work towards a magical girl culture where wishes usually aren't kept private, ultimately I do think that something as personal as manifesting your soul isn't something that other people have a right to know about, and that magi who want to keep their wish private for whatever reason absolutely have a right to that privacy.
 
New take. "Wishes should be kept private" is a machination of Kyubey.
Eh. I can see where you're coming from, we know Kyubey likes to keep everyone isolated and vulnerable, but even if Kyubey weren't malevolent it would make perfect sense for a taboo against asking people for their wishes or sharing a wish without permission to develop. Enough wishes are super personal, either just by themselves or because of the circumstances surrounding them, that I don't think meguca social norms could've been anything but avoiding the potential landmine.
 
The best we can probably do is foster an environment of tolerance and acceptance so as to give people the comfort that they need to discuss their hopes and dreams and encourage thoughtful consideration and introspection about what people really want. Part of that is preventing wish-shaming.

That would be an interesting idea. In the long term, it would make sense to start initiatives to improve the mental health of young women. Funding anti-bullying measures and counselors. Advocating for women's rights around the world. Probably want to check where worldwide LGBT acceptance is at, since that's potentially different.
 
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Part of that is preventing wish-shaming.
As far as I can tell that's already not a thing. There doesn't seem to be a taboo against sharing your own wish, just sharing and requesting others' wishes, and that makes perfect sense when some wishes are like Mami's or Kyoko's or Kazumi's or Homura's or Niko's or canon Sayaka's or Nagisa's or Oriko's or presumably Ono's.

I'm on board with your whole second paragraph, but I don't think it'll address the wish thing.
 
Is it worth it to prep an arsenal of ready-to-deploy self-buff/enemy-debuff Griefhax devices in 4d space? Its unclear if there will ever be future threats as insanely well prepared as the Iowa Group.

Seriously, a mile wide area of antimagic and an entire structure as a summon weapon? Where either one would shut down our timestop-nanofog wombo-combo? Utter bullshit odds on that, I would think.
 
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Is it worth it to prep an arsenal of ready-to-deploy self-buff/enemy-debuff Griefhax devices in 4d space? Its unclear if there will ever be future threats as insanely well prepared as the Iowa Group.

Seriously, a mile wide area of antimagic and an entire structure as a summon weapon? Where either one would shut down our timestop-nanofog wombo-combo? Utter bullshit odds on that, I would think.

Generic response: I think we will see more free time to spend on science in the near future. Whether it will be this science I don't know.
 
I think it's just humans being humans. Sure, Kyubey approves, but do we really expect him not to?
Actually, this might be a thing he would be on the fence about.

On the one hand communication helps with problems and might reduce profit.

On the other, hormonal teenagers might get the brilliant idea of making fun of others wishes, leading to war, wich, like all war, leads to massive amount of grief and suffering.
 
The pleiades saints had a QB interdicto
Its unclear if there will ever be future threats as insanely well prepared as the Iowa Group.
To make an analogy, we are the congo and QB is the lowest level of the belgian colonial system. In this analogy Iowa is a competing tribe and Wally is an oil spill. We don't know what force the incubators can bring to bear, or any of the incubator's competitors. There's always a bigger fish.
 
OKay okay okay okay okay okay

I'm not -actually- going to say we should do this but I had one of those god damn *ideas*, y'know?

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We should make Yuki a moon base to hold Iowa in
 
OKay okay okay okay okay okay

I'm not -actually- going to say we should do this but I had one of those god damn *ideas*, y'know?

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We should make Yuki a moon base to hold Iowa in
Can you imagine their faces?

"YARR! Finally we are free! Now we shall roam the world and plan our rev- why the fuck is the earth in the sky!?!"
 
OKay okay okay okay okay okay

I'm not -actually- going to say we should do this but I had one of those god damn *ideas*, y'know?

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We should make Yuki a moon base to hold Iowa in

While I'm far from certain about this, doesn't JAXA have plans to go to the moon? I'm pretty sure Japan irl would have some of the most up to date information pertinent to building a moon base.

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Do you think Yuuki Inoue will accept being paid in moon trips?
 
While I'm far from certain about this, doesn't JAXA have plans to go to the moon? I'm pretty sure Japan irl would have some of the most up to date information pertinent to building a moon base.
Building a moon base isn't actually all that hard. Building a moon base on a razor thin mass budget is, but we don't need to worry about that. Any japanese manned space ambitions would be back burner at best, who we really need are submarine designers.
 
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