Poll: Immortality, with a catch
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So it has come to this. A question that reveals if you're prioritizing your life or other's lives.
Shall I dismiss any sort of sympathy for other people in favour of keeping myself alive? Or is the better choice denying my innermost desires to face my horrible decay?
Are those the only two choices? Dying as a hero or living as a villain? Witnessing my ideals become objects of hate, or witnessing nothing at all? Dismissal of life or submission for death? Why?
This is something I won't accept. There has to be a non-tragic alternative. There has to be, a third way. There's always a third way when one looks close enough.
You mentioned that I would be given telekinesis under this deal, is it before or after I kill someone? If after, I want to know where the genie comes from. I want to find the gruesome beast that wrote the deal, and brutally slaughter him! Or maybe just do research on EVERYTHING behind this deal, and question it.
Now, about that telekinesis thing...
Controlling the world outside my nerves is the power that has fascinated me the most. If I study it long enough, maybe just maybe I will make death no longer being a thing. Yeah, I said it. I will find a way to kill death itself! That's my greatest ambition, understanding the nuts and bolts of everything in this universe, so I can completely reshape it.
Shall I dismiss any sort of sympathy for other people in favour of keeping myself alive? Or is the better choice denying my innermost desires to face my horrible decay?
Are those the only two choices? Dying as a hero or living as a villain? Witnessing my ideals become objects of hate, or witnessing nothing at all? Dismissal of life or submission for death? Why?
This is something I won't accept. There has to be a non-tragic alternative. There has to be, a third way. There's always a third way when one looks close enough.
You mentioned that I would be given telekinesis under this deal, is it before or after I kill someone? If after, I want to know where the genie comes from. I want to find the gruesome beast that wrote the deal, and brutally slaughter him! Or maybe just do research on EVERYTHING behind this deal, and question it.
Now, about that telekinesis thing...
Controlling the world outside my nerves is the power that has fascinated me the most. If I study it long enough, maybe just maybe I will make death no longer being a thing. Yeah, I said it. I will find a way to kill death itself! That's my greatest ambition, understanding the nuts and bolts of everything in this universe, so I can completely reshape it.
Question: If your immortality discriminates against the elderly and infirm, does it also discriminate against clones?
I mean, I figure that if I put whatever many years of immortality I initially get to good use and amass the wealth and technology necessary to perfect cloning and secure my own personal island respectively, I can advance my immortality by hunting said clones I produce like General Zaroff from The Most Dangerous Game. Hell, I could probably amass more money charging other equally depraved wealthy socialites admission to join me on my hunts.
I mean, I figure that if I put whatever many years of immortality I initially get to good use and amass the wealth and technology necessary to perfect cloning and secure my own personal island respectively, I can advance my immortality by hunting said clones I produce like General Zaroff from The Most Dangerous Game. Hell, I could probably amass more money charging other equally depraved wealthy socialites admission to join me on my hunts.
I voted "no" because I'm just that kind of guy, but I flipped the coin and decided "yes"; I would actively eliminate only the most cruel hearted and evil people on this planet.
It would be unfair to cause harm without allowing them to justify their reasons first, and I would off them teh chance to spend some time in jail (I'm talking mega-criminals here); and I would only play for my immortality if they openly engaged me in an attempt to end my life first. That way I would only die when there is no more evil people who deserve to die remaining on this planet for about a century.
It would be unfair to cause harm without allowing them to justify their reasons first, and I would off them teh chance to spend some time in jail (I'm talking mega-criminals here); and I would only play for my immortality if they openly engaged me in an attempt to end my life first. That way I would only die when there is no more evil people who deserve to die remaining on this planet for about a century.
sure. i mean, there are bundles of people out there who need to get killed and if it makes me immortal, well sign me up!
note- when i say need to get killed, i mean the people who are legitimately terrible, like other murderers and psychopaths. also drug dealers. there usually isn't a shortage of those.
note- when i say need to get killed, i mean the people who are legitimately terrible, like other murderers and psychopaths. also drug dealers. there usually isn't a shortage of those.
You underestimate how easy it is to create conflicting evidence.Mortai Gravesend said:
A lot of murders have never been solved, add conflicting evidence and it's borderline impossible.
Murder gets you a lot more than a year in all the countries I can think of.CODE-D said:
On the plus side, there are countries where you can murder 300 people and only get 25 years in prison.
Yep. Anti-hero status, here I come. Like a violent, superpowered Hunter S. Thompson (minus the drug collection, I think). Bastards of the world, beware.
Also, think of the possibilities if you're imprisoned... a huge building chock full of people to extend your lifespan with. It's not like the bars can hold you.
Also, think of the possibilities if you're imprisoned... a huge building chock full of people to extend your lifespan with. It's not like the bars can hold you.
No. No one has the right to take another life. And to use it to extend your own is just greedy. I don't care if you say you are going to be killing "bad people" your a worse person for it.
Why murder a person? Does killing any other animal not suffice? Say.. eradicate one race of anything running around in the jungle => Lots of years.
But really.. Kill 1 guy to gain 1 year. Bad trade off.
But really.. Kill 1 guy to gain 1 year. Bad trade off.
Huh?TestECull said:
Where did you learn this?
And sorry OP. I don't believe I could live with myself forever if I had to kill.
We have a limit on how much 'life' we can take. Think of our brain like a hard-drive with a set limit. At one point we would go insane. It's not biologically viable to live too long.Hafrael said:
There's also the whole the longer you live the less each minute of it means to you. Every year we experience we percieve as half of the last year. That's because our brain starts to omit 'uninteresting' parts of you memories.
One year per life? Uh, no. Unless I can become an abortion doctor and argue that abortions count as murder (not that I believe that, but maybe my powers will).
Not true the brain will clean itself up. If with this immortality it is assumed your brain does not age or decay then it will be perfectly capable of compartmentalizing and storing useful and important information. (Mental illnesses from age are there simply from age! They would not come about if the brain did not age normally, as in, decay.)Optiluiz said:
The second claim is also complete hogwash, it is one of those common ideas that is utter bullshit. Time does not speed up perceptually, a lot of people just get bored with the every day minutiae of life, and have a strange perception of past events. (Source [http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/05/time-speed-age/])
I would hate to be immortal, although it's interesting how we're mostly pretty polarised on this one. I say this because knowing my utter lack of finesse I'd probably get caught instantly and spend most of it in a prison cell, until I'd be forced to kill again. So I'd basically spend all of my immortal life in prison.
I think I'll just stick with my mortality, thanks very much.
I think I'll just stick with my mortality, thanks very much.
Hmm I'd used my telekinetic powers to sneak into death row then use said powers to murder an inmate.
Wow, exactly 50% when I put in the poll. Being religious, I would definitely would not care so no.
