One of my favourite things about Babylon 5 still is the way that, while it depicts the crimes of both anti-telepaths and telepath supremacists as horrendous, it still respects just how frightening the abusive use of psi powers can be. It never descends to crude "Mutant Metaphor" posturing where superpowered people are exactly analogous to a real-world oppressed minority, and anybody who has any feeling that superpowers need some kind of regulation will inevitably devolve into a mass-murdering fanatic, with tasteless allusions to the Holocaust and/or sixteenth-century witch-hunts.
And I wonder if in the B5 universe humans really are unique among space-faring species in their internal heterogeniety of cultures. That range of variation and individualism might explain how much more difficulty humans have had in integrating their psi-powered compared to the other cultures with them.
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And I wonder if in the B5 universe humans really are unique among space-faring species in their internal heterogeniety of cultures. That range of variation and individualism might explain how much more difficulty humans have had in integrating their psi-powered compared to the other cultures with them.