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Fine, since I need to make it specific:
Using anything other than your natural abilities and skills to augment ANY part of your MA means you are depending on something other than yourself to be...

Anything that one uses that they feel gives them an "edge", whether precieved or real, is a crutch.
Could they function as well without it?
If yes, why do it?
If now, then its is a crutch.
Be it...

Anything that is a crutch, is a crutch.

I did security at a rehab center when I was younger.
I saw first hand the results of drug use.
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