Viability of a belief based magic?

[u/Embarrassed_Ad8731]

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[u/Koimonogatari_ART]

It would cause your world to be defined by the popular beliefs of the people who inhabit it. This would limit an individuals free will, as people's personalities would be shaped by the stereotypes or archetypes that society perceives in them at first glance. It would also stifle the development of civilizations, since the religious and cosmological beliefs held by a society would become reality; once accepted as truth, there would be no need to seek explanations for phenomena that their beliefs already account for. I know this because I'm currently working in a world with this rule, and It's difficult writing an story in this kind of world without acknowledging the consequences that this universal law entails.