Isekai Shoukan-sareta ga Kyousei Soukan-sareta Ore ha shikatanaku yaseru koto ni shita. - Vol. 1 Ch. 6 - Battle with the Person from Another World
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It's the police! Party's over guys, let's hightail it out of here.
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It does seem logical that if transport and return to and from Isekais were a real thing, and somewhat common, that the authorities would catch on eventually.
Actually, this has been in the background for a number of chapters.
The "information wants to be free!" part of me dislikes the idea that this is something that would be kept from the general public.
The more sensible part of me says, "Hell, yeah, keep it under wraps, just think of the types who'd set out to figure out how to transfer and return with magic powers!", and also, like, it's Men in Black, ya dig?
Actually, this has been in the background for a number of chapters.
The "information wants to be free!" part of me dislikes the idea that this is something that would be kept from the general public.
The more sensible part of me says, "Hell, yeah, keep it under wraps, just think of the types who'd set out to figure out how to transfer and return with magic powers!", and also, like, it's Men in Black, ya dig?
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Honestly, covering up actual trans-dimensional incursions and isekai stuff happening in Japan is disturbingly plausible. Citizens don't tend to ask too many questions (especially of the police/government) and anyone walking around town with animal ears or a tail or whatnot is just cosplay. Oh, you're telling us that you saw him shoot fireballs out of his hand? I've seen magicians do the same! They were just shooting a film/TV show and they're using practical effects.
Actually, Re:Creators had an interesting take of the Japanese government doing just this. They didn't QUITE explain in-series how a mahou shoujo blowing up a building with the power of love and possibly killing or maiming dozens was written off and explained, but even how authors and artists were being killed you could get by for awhile with just saying it's a serial killer or a disturbed fan or something and people will believe that before they start thinking "oh, obviously it's a magician from another world that is killing people."
And it would go to reason that said investigators and organizations would try to minimize the danger and damage by being on the seen of "weird shit" to see if it's just something odd or an incursion. Fat guy getting hit by a truck and disappearing would probably qualify. And once you get on scene and figure out that other worlders are involved, you want to find them all and make sure that they aren't running amok. Hence why the guy in charge there wanted to wait and see if anyone came back to meet up with the two that they had already found.
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Actually, Re:Creators had an interesting take of the Japanese government doing just this. They didn't QUITE explain in-series how a mahou shoujo blowing up a building with the power of love and possibly killing or maiming dozens was written off and explained, but even how authors and artists were being killed you could get by for awhile with just saying it's a serial killer or a disturbed fan or something and people will believe that before they start thinking "oh, obviously it's a magician from another world that is killing people."
And it would go to reason that said investigators and organizations would try to minimize the danger and damage by being on the seen of "weird shit" to see if it's just something odd or an incursion. Fat guy getting hit by a truck and disappearing would probably qualify. And once you get on scene and figure out that other worlders are involved, you want to find them all and make sure that they aren't running amok. Hence why the guy in charge there wanted to wait and see if anyone came back to meet up with the two that they had already found.
@Weasalopes
To be honest, if such an event were actually occurring and there was no way to stop it, covering it up would be the best course of action. It's already bad enough that some jerkoff on another plane of existence can wave his arms and yell a chant and kidnap you to another world with possibly no way to get back... And when people find out dragons, magic nukes/magical terrorism, mind control, summoning, hordes of undead, ect. are all a thing and could POSSIBLY be transported back to Earth... Well... That is going to play havoc with world stability and financial markets. It's the possibility of what if and the fear of the unknown that would cause panic and unease. And it doesn't even necessarily have to be actually happening. Country A could start accusing that the leader of Country B is under mind control magic and how do you disprove that? Next thing you know, someone does something stupid and it escalates and possibly even leads to war without anything isekai actually being involved. Very dangerous to have public.
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Yes.
Yes.
One could argue slippery slope in regard to suppression of such information leading to similar attitudes on the part of government in other areas, but sometimes it's better to slip partway down the slope than stay at the top of the hill.
When there is nothing you can do about a situation, when it truly is outside of everyone's control, the determining factor in regard to making information public should be, "How will people react?"; will releasing the information result in a worse situation for the majority than if the information is suppressed, is a valid concern.
The liberal librarian in me says release the information that can be verified as true, the pragmatist in me says that if the world is going to end in five days, nothing we can do in that time period will make a difference so let people go about their lives as normal, and the second is the perspective that should be taken in this matter. "First, do no harm," to paraphrase the Hippocratic Oath. If you can't make the situation better, don't take action that will make it worse.
Now, if I was a believer in a religion that said that one needed to be sanctified to go to Heaven after death, then my perspective would change in an end of the world situation, as I'd want to provide the opportunity for as many as could come to faith in that period as possible to do so, so I'd want them to have that sense of immediacy in making such a choice.
When there is nothing you can do about a situation, when it truly is outside of everyone's control, the determining factor in regard to making information public should be, "How will people react?"; will releasing the information result in a worse situation for the majority than if the information is suppressed, is a valid concern.
The liberal librarian in me says release the information that can be verified as true, the pragmatist in me says that if the world is going to end in five days, nothing we can do in that time period will make a difference so let people go about their lives as normal, and the second is the perspective that should be taken in this matter. "First, do no harm," to paraphrase the Hippocratic Oath. If you can't make the situation better, don't take action that will make it worse.
Now, if I was a believer in a religion that said that one needed to be sanctified to go to Heaven after death, then my perspective would change in an end of the world situation, as I'd want to provide the opportunity for as many as could come to faith in that period as possible to do so, so I'd want them to have that sense of immediacy in making such a choice.