I Thought This Was Scientific
Chapter 262

Standing guard for nothing

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Turn every human in the world into a mutant.

If Kraft had to research something like that from scratch, it really would take a considerable amount of time. But with the data from William Stryker's base and the machine Magneto had, whose effectiveness was still unknown, continuing the research would be much easier.

As for whether new forms of discrimination would emerge once everyone had superpowers, based on the strength of their powers or changes to their appearance, there was absolutely no question about that.

Even without superpowers, humans discriminated against one another over skin color, where they came from, wealth, and all sorts of other things. Whether mutants existed or not, that whole mess of discrimination would never disappear.

Even human experimentation on mutants would not stop just because everyone became a mutant. There would always be restless troublemakers researching that sort of thing.

And judging by what had happened to Stryker's family, mutants with overly powerful abilities were extremely prone to losing control during childhood. If every human on the planet became a mutant, the chances of similar incidents would increase dramatically.

But none of that was Kraft's concern. He was simply dealing with Stryker and, along the way, resolving the mutants' current predicament. What happened to them afterward was not his problem.

In fact, compared with turning the entire world into mutants, stripping every mutant of their powers would cause far less social upheaval. It was not beyond Kraft's abilities, either. It just would not get under Stryker's skin the same way.

Besides... wouldn't a world where everyone had powers be pretty interesting?

Magneto had no idea what Kraft was thinking, but when he heard that Kraft wanted to turn everyone in the world into mutants, he could not help getting excited.

Once he calmed down, however,

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