Poll:Immortality or Invincibility
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Wow, im suprised! its almost dead even. anyway, i would choose invincibility. then i would join the army, just ask for a sword, a knife, and a lotta c-4.
Tough call. If your immortal then you still need to worry about some random dude knifing or shooting you and if your invincible then you still die after a period of time. In the end, I would have to choose immortality because you could always develop ways to protected yourself from different kinds of threats and it would be awesome to see the kind of technologies and discoveries that humanity will make. Also, with all that time I could train my mind and body to perfection by learning and mastering all forms of martial arts and studying all the different sciences.
Hmm. From Tolkien's weary elves to Twilight's bored vampires, immortality kinda gets a bad rap.
So I'd have to say invincibility. Better than that would be if you totally could just choose when you want to die, without any consequences (like family grief).
So I'd have to say invincibility. Better than that would be if you totally could just choose when you want to die, without any consequences (like family grief).
The only given reason I'd choose to be immortal would be to see what happens with the world in a few hundred years. I love knowledge and there's so much to learn that it's a tempting option. But knowing my luck, the day after I chose immortality I'd wind up being hit by a car or something similar in a freak accident. Plus it'd get boring after a few hundred years.
Thus I'm going to go with invincibility. I'd still get to do a lot of cool stuff and wouldn't have to worry about the risks involved, which I'd never be able to do if I were immortal.
Thus I'm going to go with invincibility. I'd still get to do a lot of cool stuff and wouldn't have to worry about the risks involved, which I'd never be able to do if I were immortal.
I chose invincibility because realistically, if you were immortal, then life would not only become boring in some cases, but you'd see friends and family grow up and die around you while you lived your own life, and if you were injured severely, you could be living for hundreds or thousands of years with that pain, unless euthanasia or suicide were bearable.
Knowing I had a reasonable life without pain seems much more appealing than having a theoretically infinate life but still be prone to physical pain, as well as emotional suffering.
Knowing I had a reasonable life without pain seems much more appealing than having a theoretically infinate life but still be prone to physical pain, as well as emotional suffering.
Coming from an authority point of view though, on a mass scale immortality is better because if you're invincible, you can practically do whatever (one of the reasons why I'd prefer it) but immortality you still need caution as you do now to prevent yourself crossing other people (which on the other side could be argued that invincibility would prevent people dying in wars...making them kind of useless)
Damn...I'm confusing my own opinions =/
Damn...I'm confusing my own opinions =/
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2. Being 14 might have some advantages, but youll always look 14. No one will believe you if you say your like 16, or 18, or even 21 (ok so maybe you can get away with 16 or 18, like I can, but still). Unless you want to go through the hassles of showing an ID around, it would most likely become a *****. plus, no women over say idk 20 will want anything to do with you. Also, any loved ones or girlfriends will age, and you wont. If anything I would want Immortality at the age of like 20-25, since then Im seen (literally seen) as an adult. Anyway, i wouldnt want immortaility, since I dont wanna watch my loved ones die, even if I can possibly gain infinite knowledge.
Spend a few hundred years accruing wealth and political power, slowly help guide history and long term projects (Space Colonisation etc). Being very capable of making impossibly long-term investments for the benefit of humanity would be a massive virtue. You'd make one hell of an advisor for world leaders, and could become a definitive source of history for the human race.
Honestly? It has to be immortality. Taking invincibility would just be selfish. Then again I imagine the ravages of time on your mind would probably make you quite aloof and uncaring. Why bother being nice to someone when they'll be dead in a paltry 80 years or so, you'll only have to do it again with their descendents.
The interesting part would be if humanity started to evolve, you'd be a separate race eventually.
Honestly? It has to be immortality. Taking invincibility would just be selfish. Then again I imagine the ravages of time on your mind would probably make you quite aloof and uncaring. Why bother being nice to someone when they'll be dead in a paltry 80 years or so, you'll only have to do it again with their descendents.
The interesting part would be if humanity started to evolve, you'd be a separate race eventually.
Invincibility.
I would be able to live my life with no fear, and then I could die when I'd finished living my life, at age whenever.
I would be able to live my life with no fear, and then I could die when I'd finished living my life, at age whenever.
I would choose immortality, much better. You get to feel human, but not as fragile. Plus you could pretend to be a vampire.
