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* [[White Wolf]] 's ''[[Aberrant]]'' has Project Utopia, who do this very subtly - they're just helpful folks who want to teach you how to control your superpowers and use them for good. Except that they also sterilize you so you don't make more little superhumans and (largely out of ignorance) persuade you to overuse your powers, causing bad mutations and insanity.
* ''[[Traveller]]'' : Averted. It is illegal in the Imperium to have a psi school and presumably one can't accidentally develop psi powers to the point where they are dangerous. Among the Zho, psis are an oligarchy and don't need such things. An [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] might be that they are a Mutant Draft Board that existed so long that it is the essence of the ruling class.
** Since you cannot legally exist as a psi in Zhodani society without accepting 'intendant' status and the accompanying training and incorporation into the social order, that is a valid interpretation. Of course, since the status in question is a massive upgrade from 'prole' to 'aristocrat', virtually no one sane ever declines the offer.
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' has this trope gone mad...rather like everything else in Alpha Complex. Mutations are officially treason, however a mutant may confess their mutation and become registered - they must wear a yellow stripe on their uniform and effectively become second class citizens, passed up for promotions and scapegoated for any number of treasons. {{spoiler|By the way, if you're a player character, you're a mutant. Oh, and since Alpha Complex is run by The Computer, the Machine Empathy mutation is cause for immediate execution and probable erasure.}} There is, of course, PSION, the pro-mutant Secret Society that wants to put the mutants in charge, and are therefore [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|doubleplus]] treasonous.
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