"Because I don't understand how anyone would want to have less control over their own faculties, unless they're just stupid," comes the very honest answer. "And what we use magic for is just as important as the magic itself. Doesn't your world have any concept of, I don't know, ethics in magic?"

As soon as Rita says it, she realizes there's a good chance that it doesn't, at least not in an official sense, between the general lack of magicians and all the things she read about the Raven King.