Technology's different. I mean, functionally, not that much, but powers are scarier to people 'cause tech isn't alive, y'know? You can break tech or turn it off or take it away from someone. And sure, what a power does depends on the person who has it just as much as what a knife does but...it's scarier for people, when something like that is part of someone.

It's not fair or right, but they don't like feeling like there's a weapon out there that they couldn't match if they wanted to. Even if the person who holds it doesn't wanna hurt anyone.