Poll:Immortality or Invincibility
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Hard choice.
Immortality
Advantages
- Live forever!
- Watch the world move.
- See more of the world than anyone else, if you're relatively lucky.
- Meet more people, have more relationships, and in general: really live more.
- Opportunity for riches is huge. We're talking... ruling the world and living in a chocolate palace, here.
Disadvantages
- Watch your friends grow old and die, one by one. Yippee?
- Having it virtually guarantees that your death will be violent.
- If you're locked up for "life", that's a long, long time. Of course, the chains will rot eventually... unless you're in a nuclear vault. Then you'll probably come out when a new race makes you look redundant. Cue more imprisonment - you'd be the new King Kong.
- If something truly breaks you, you'd be broken forever, rather than being allowed the peace of death. Unless you suicide, which is an unpleasant way to go.
Invincibility
Advantages
- Look maw, no death! Yet...
- You can probably become a military superweapon, if you're into that sort of thing.
- Riches ensue.
Disadvantages
- If you are locked up, what will you do? Being invincible doesn't mean unsealable.
- How exactly are you going to have surgery for old age issues when you're invincible? They can't exactly cut you open... so your life expectancy is probably half that of everyone else.
After looking at the disadvantages of these, and the extremes of possibility posed by each, I think I'd say: neither. Living life without such unnatural additions is a philosophically strong standpoint.
Besides, it'd be hard to be motivated if you had something like this keeping you from dying. Survival instinct is, after all, what drives us.
Of course, if you'd said we'd be able to control these powers at will, I'd choose one. Probably immortality in that case. Because being able to decide to start aging is just better.
Immortality
Advantages
- Live forever!
- Watch the world move.
- See more of the world than anyone else, if you're relatively lucky.
- Meet more people, have more relationships, and in general: really live more.
- Opportunity for riches is huge. We're talking... ruling the world and living in a chocolate palace, here.
Disadvantages
- Watch your friends grow old and die, one by one. Yippee?
- Having it virtually guarantees that your death will be violent.
- If you're locked up for "life", that's a long, long time. Of course, the chains will rot eventually... unless you're in a nuclear vault. Then you'll probably come out when a new race makes you look redundant. Cue more imprisonment - you'd be the new King Kong.
- If something truly breaks you, you'd be broken forever, rather than being allowed the peace of death. Unless you suicide, which is an unpleasant way to go.
Invincibility
Advantages
- Look maw, no death! Yet...
- You can probably become a military superweapon, if you're into that sort of thing.
- Riches ensue.
Disadvantages
- If you are locked up, what will you do? Being invincible doesn't mean unsealable.
- How exactly are you going to have surgery for old age issues when you're invincible? They can't exactly cut you open... so your life expectancy is probably half that of everyone else.
After looking at the disadvantages of these, and the extremes of possibility posed by each, I think I'd say: neither. Living life without such unnatural additions is a philosophically strong standpoint.
Besides, it'd be hard to be motivated if you had something like this keeping you from dying. Survival instinct is, after all, what drives us.
Of course, if you'd said we'd be able to control these powers at will, I'd choose one. Probably immortality in that case. Because being able to decide to start aging is just better.
I'm sorry (and it's possible that in five pages someone thought to tell you), but if this were true, would we play video games?Internet Kraken said:
hello, have any of you seen Highlander, if your immortal and your head gets cut off you wont die, it will be like your dead and if your a christian, you wont be able to get to heaven.
I choose invincibility
I choose invincibility
True, but sadly, there are always accidents, and if someone was to discover your ability, they may try to kill you out of jealousy, or some sick motive.Housebroken Lunatic said:
How would you go about it? Not that I'm going to steal your idea when i'm Immortal. *shifts eyes cunningly*Housebroken Lunatic said:
Really, what's the point of immortality without the Required Secondary Powers? If I'm going to be purely human, I want to die at some point; if I'm going to be immortal, I need something equally superhuman to keep me amused for millennia.
In short, invincibility.
In short, invincibility.
Immortality, certainly by your definition would be brilliant. You could see all the ages of the World and more.
Yes there would also be pain, and loss. But if this became too much you could end your life.
Of course this goes against the traditional definition, wherein you *cannot* die, even by your own hand. That lack of choice would make it an unbearable option.
Yes there would also be pain, and loss. But if this became too much you could end your life.
Of course this goes against the traditional definition, wherein you *cannot* die, even by your own hand. That lack of choice would make it an unbearable option.
You sure? Just because you're invincible, it doesn't necessarily mean you have super strength as well. So while the security guards might not be able to kill you, they could sure as hell gang up on you and cast you in irons. What good would invincibility do you then? : )outcast_within said:
