Me? I'd let them go. It's the people who don't have a problem with it who need their heads examined.
If I were just some run-of-the-mill mage... I'd probably tell them about my culture and lifestyle. Put the power in its context. Magic isn't an obscurity or aberration in a society of mages, and most who wield it don't experience it as a power that places them above anyone else, any more than a 20th century human from the developed countries would experience the ownership of a car as a transformational mastery of the people around them.
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If I were just some run-of-the-mill mage... I'd probably tell them about my culture and lifestyle. Put the power in its context. Magic isn't an obscurity or aberration in a society of mages, and most who wield it don't experience it as a power that places them above anyone else, any more than a 20th century human from the developed countries would experience the ownership of a car as a transformational mastery of the people around them.