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Just to clear up some of the ideological stuff that has been poorly explained in the anime, Blanche's argument is that it's unfair that magician's are automatically given preferential status in society because of natural born talents. Tatsuya's objection is that the preferential treatment is not guaranteed because, despite inborn talent, it actually takes a lot of education and hard work to make that talent useful and it's only after all that work that magician's are given preferential treatment. Which holds true for any profession really. Just because someone has a talent for math or sports doesn't mean they automatically become a top scientist or athlete.
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About why Tatsuya is considered a failure by his family: They've glossed over a lot of the insanely long techno-babble/world building (thankfully) from the LN so either this got cut or they haven't approached that part yet (I don't remember exactly where it is) but it's essentially an extension of the reason he's considered course 2 instead of course 1. Tatsuya's innate magic's sole use is reconstructing and deconstructing existing things. The magic processing area in his brain is completely devoted to those two magics to the point that he can't (naturally) do anything else. The Yotsuba family (and, I guess, magic society in general) measures the strength of magic based on its ability to alter or create new phenomena. Since Tatsuya can't affect any kind of change with magic (only break things down or rebuild them as they were), he's considered to have no magic. The experiment his mother performed repurposed a part of his brain (the emotion part) to be a second magic processing area. This gave him limited ability to cast simple sequences of more versatile magic (albeit almost instantaneously) but, again, since strength is measured on how drastically he can alter phenomena, he is still considered sub par by the standards of the school's tests. Edit: He's kind of like Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist in that he can't perform full alchemical transmutations, just stops at the deconstruction phase.
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