Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35086897-20180410025240/@comment-26018514-20180417205713

Soldwolf wrote:

...you think that the person (Me) you are writting about is so stuiped that they swallow Tide Pods. And that is an insult.

That is your chosen interpretation, I am implying not that you would eat them, but that there is no way to interpret them as similar.

Children interpret Tide pods as colored candies because they both have a clear coating and bright colors, they don't interpret them as organic foods, this is a clear disconnect, natural foods don't look anything like tide pods clear coating, and most natural foods of such painfully bright colors are poison.

If someone confuses them for natural food, it is because they are confused as to what food looks like by the belief that processed items that are edible(AKA candies in this example) are food(they are not by any means necessary to a diet, so they are not actual food).

Similarly, you have the same disconnect in your example of Silver Eyed Warriors and other things you assert are genetic and not magic(the sharingan/etc) and "myths" of the natural world that were only considered myth because they were attributed magical circumstances/abilities they do not and never had.

and I Quote: "The permanence of Ozpin's magic has never been in question. And while genetically passed down magic powers are common in fiction, just as common are those powers that are just genetic and have nothing to do with magic..."

Most fictional examples of the latter are actually unstated magical/Su abilities, or in a world in which magic has been sanitized/normalized(the former making them the "magic" analogue due to absence of magic, the latter making them likely magical in nature just because magic is so intrinsic to the world it is normal enough people don't call it out).

It is thus actually uncommon for your second example, as most "passed down" super powers are exclusively magical or divine in nature in their first iteration, after which they continue to be magical/divine but are never called out as such because it is unnecessary.