Schiller lightly tapped the table and said, "Now then, what losses would the anti-Mutants suffer? At most, the Brotherhood would lead the Mutants in making a fuss, but that fuss would never reach them."
"When Magneto blew up factories, the ones hurt were ordinary workers employed there. When Magneto fought the military, the ones hurt were also newly conscripted low-ranking soldiers."
"The factory owners would not be waiting on the assembly lines for him to blow them up. Those generals sat in rooms safer than safe, directing their subordinates to fight for them."
"You can't be thinking of having Magneto carry out assassinations, can you?" Strange's eyes widened. He said, "Setting everything else aside, Professor X would never agree. He would never let you use Magneto as a gun."
Stark frowned and said, "Actually, Mutants have long proven that path doesn't work. It wasn't as if they had never assassinated important politicians, but every time, it only brought humanity's united resistance and even fiercer retaliation."
"They might be able to kill one or two people at the top, but once that elite class sensed danger, they would only retaliate by any means necessary. Public opinion would turn against them as well."
"Retaliating against each other would ultimately lead to war. But Professor X saw it clearly: with the Mutants' numbers, they had no way to wage a direct war against humanity. Even if they could, they would not be able to control the scale of it. Once Earth was reduced to ruins, where would they go to enjoy the fruits of civilized society?"
At that point, Strange covered his forehead himself and said, "Mutants are simply an unsolvable dead end. If they don't fight, they'll be slowly dragged to death by all kinds of conspiracies and schemes. If they fight