Altruistic Hemalurgy?

[Trusk'our he/him]

It seems that everyone in the mistborn books who knows of hemalurgy thinks it to be evil. I disagree. 

Now, please don't take this the wrong way; I believe that hemalurgy, due to its nature of needing to take power from someone's spiritweb in order to fuel itself, definitely is more likely to be used for selfish or evil purposes by people who care little for the suffering of others. I also think that it could be more easily abused, since anyone with the right knowledge can use to steal power from someone else.

However, there are those in the cosmere who have lots of power, and this power make them able to bully and cause harm to others with little to no repercussion, except at great cost to those who try to stop them (Miles Hundred Lives, The Lord Ruler, The Fused, even certain radiants like most of the Skybreakers). Hemalurgy can stop these pseudo-immortal individuals, allowing a normal person to take

Individuals with powerful manifestations of investiture would need to obey certain laws that prevent them from abusing and bullying others, and if they break those laws, then perhaps specially trained hemalurgists could carefully remove their powers without killing them.

There could also be trusted people who are given access to hemalurgiclly charged spikes, allowing someone who is trustworthy to hold great power for the benefit for others in society, such as a gold compounder who can feruchemically store Identity and Investiture, then give unsealed goldminds to sick and wounded individuals who are in need of healing.

Hemalurgy is a powerful, potentially very dangerous tool if kept unchecked and kept hidden away in the shadows, but as with any tool, it can be used for great good or terrible evil.

So, this is my opinion, and I understand that it is a bit optimistic of me to think this way, but I think that it would potentially work. What are your thoughts on this?

[Dunkum he/him]

so 2 main things here:

1. the gold compounder example you give is probably similar to how the Southern Scadrians create their medallions. I'd have to double check the book, but I think they initially used Hemalurgy to create people with the necessary skillsets to do that

2. while we know that Hemalurgy doesn't have to be fatal to the donor, I don't think that is known on Scadrial by era 2.  they might conceive of a gold ferring being able to heal from the donation, provided that ferruchemy isn't what is being taken, but I don't think they know enough about it to carefully remove an attribute without killing the donor.

[NameIess]

3 hours ago, Dunkum said:

1. the gold compounder example you give is probably similar to how the Southern Scadrians create their medallions. I'd have to double check the book, but I think they initially used Hemalurgy to create people with the necessary skillsets to do that

 

We don't know that. The books are hazy on how they made medallions, but we will get an explanation in The Lost Metal.

[Dunkum he/him]

12 minutes ago, Ookla the unintelligible said:

We don't know that. The books are hazy on how they made medallions, but we will get an explanation in The Lost Metal.

I wasn't sure.  its been a bit since I read the mistborn era 2 books.