Mathias Melcher
April 16, 2024 3:34 PM
Probing (After gaming club) by Mathias Melcher
OOC: CW-The title is probing , so....also some age typical insensitivity towards mental illness and illusions to science fiction style animal cruelty BIC:
From the moment he’d heard about it at the Returning Feast, Mathias knew exactly he was going to do his project for the Fair on-conspiracy theories. Poetry was fun to Although if they did, he’d love to collaborate.Actually, it might be cool, for example, to get a muggleborn perspective on,like, what they thought was fake that turned out to be real like unicorns or dragons or magic in general or what was still made up. Or like conspiracy theories that muggles had versus ones wizards had and whether or not there was any overlap. Surely differences in muggle technology versus magic made for some variation.
Either way though his personal favorite would always be the ones about government experiments. Mathias was sure that every government in the world both magical and muggle experimented on people. Actually, it would not surprise him if this extended beyond this planet and alien civilizations did the same. The Aladren did believe that, while there was no life on other planets in this particular solar system, there had to be somewhere. It was sort of unrealistic to think that as big as the universe was, that only one planet in an obscure solar system would have life on it. To him that seemed to be a pretty illogical and Earth-centric prospect and life on another planet somewhere made far more sense.
So, yes, there were aliens, there had to be. And it wasn’t because of some Muggle thing that Kirstenna had told him about-Kirstenna’s mom was a Muggle, that was part of why his great-grandparents had a problem with her-where a rogue alien traveled through time and space in an old police box saving the galaxy from talking salt and pepper shakers that wanted to exterminate everyone. It was because it made sense though he had to wonder what trauma someone had around salt and pepper shakers. He only had one theory on that one, and it was not really something he wanted the answer to.
And, Mathias believed, that unless alien nature was vastly different from that of human beings, alien governments liked to experiment on people too. There was that popular stereotype about abducting humans and probing them but that also could have been a human centric view ascribing their own traits to another and very foreign species. Or aliens were curious about human biology and so probed them. This made some sense to Mathias, because if an alien came to Earth or he went to another planet, and encountered a creature entirely different from himself, or several, because any alien who came to Earth would not just encounter humans but dogs, cats, hamsters, bears, penguins and so on and so forth, he’d certainly be as curious about everything as he could be, though he’d…probably skip probing these creatures, because that just sounded especially heinous.
Of course, maybe aliens didn’t think that with regards to probing because their morality was different than humans or that being probed wasn’t painful to them because their physiology was different. Mathias did sincerely hope though that if they did come to Earth and probe its inhabitants, that they would at least use different sized probes on different creatures. He couldn’t imagine a bear probe used on him let alone one being used on a poor little hamster.
And if a probe was too small , like a hamster probe on a bear, it wouldn’t be able to collect enough data, since Mathias was pretty sure a hamster probe would get lost inside a bear, since it would be like throwing a pebble in a lake.
Anyway, while he was unsure about aliens, because he had no way of knowing obviously, human governments experimented on people, sometimes their own citizens, sometimes foreigners that they kidnapped. The Aladren would certainly not put it past Muggles and wizards to experiment on each other though that was an idea that did paint wizards in a less flattering light than their non magical counterparts. Muggle governments would see the things wizards could do and they couldn’t. Wizards…might experiment on Muggles like one would a lab rat. Which made wizards sound like jerks and Muggles simply curious. But then again, aliens might be simply curious about differences between humans, hamsters, and bears. It wouldn’t make probes hurt any less.
And when it came to human experimentation by the government, the problem-with researching it, not the obvious ones of morality and ethics-was that one had to work out which accounts were real and which were people who were crazy, or lying either for money or attention or both. There were also many variations in them like what the governments were doing specifically, which ones were doing what, was it more or less than what people suspected, etc. Not to mention the unfortunate issues of governments using memory erasure techniques both as experiments and to cover their tracks.
So, it was obviously a great topic for a Fair presentation!
However, Mathias came back to the idea of collaboration. There were probably lots of aspects that could be researched and it would be cool to have as much information on this topic out there as possible. So, he decided to ask his fellow gaming club members if they were interested in helping him though he’d heard that Gwendolyn already was doing a project on criminal psychology. “Hey, I’m going to do a project for the Fair on conspiracy theories, and I was wondering if anyone would like to work with me on it. I was leaning towards government experiments on humans, but am open to other related topics under the broader conspiracy theory umbrella.”
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