Poll: Immortality, with a catch
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I don't even need the catch. Everyone has to die eventually, and I think we'd all get tired of living century after century in an earthly purgatory. Living forever would suck, watching all of your friends and family die around you. Imagine how lonely that would be...
it applies to other jobs that could lead to death like a bad surgeon or a soldier
No. I wouldn't, even if you changed it so you only had to murder 1 person ever to gain immortality. I'm pretty sure I couldn't live with myself if I did which would kinda defy the point of being immortal.
1) Become Immortal
2) Eliminate every terrorist, warlord, dictator, rapist, serial killer and murderer on planet.
3) There will always be more.
4) ???
5) Profit. By which I mean immortality.
2) Eliminate every terrorist, warlord, dictator, rapist, serial killer and murderer on planet.
3) There will always be more.
4) ???
5) Profit. By which I mean immortality.
In a word: Yes.
In a few more words, Yes... yes I would.
I wouldn't even think twice about it. For me, there's absolutely no dilemma involved in this situation. For one, I harbor no deluded concept of the sanctity of life. I don't give a damn who lives or dies, unless I happen to be particularly fond of that person. There are decidedly few people I am at all fond of, too, which means that the field is wide open with prey.
Secondly, with telekinetic powers... there's no worry of getting caught. I'd just spend a few months learning how to fire a gun with my mind, or strangle someone, or hang them, or electrocute them from across the alley... and then I'd go to work. Best part of that is that there's no fingerprints or evidence, so it's not like I'd have to worry about getting arrested and tossed in prison like so many other folks.
So in the end, it really just comes down to "What would I do with that kind of time?"
Easy enough to answer: Whatever I Damn Well Please.
I mean, I could spend a few centuries as a local deity... read every book ever written... take long naps in the shade down by the lake. I could take a couple hundred million years to explore the Universe... map it all out... learn what makes it tick.
Of course, to do that I'd need to keep a supply of humans with me, so maybe I'd off a few old rich guys and use their money to invest in the Space Program. Fund some colonization missions, once we get the whole 'growing an atmosphere' and 'terraforming' things down, just to maximize the potential worlds we could inhabit.
I'd go on like that for a while, I'm sure, but eventually it might get a little dull.
When that happens, I figure I'll just start teaching myself genetics and biology and some ecology and the like... maybe seed my own world and watch it for a billion years or so as life grows on it. Observe them, see what makes 'em tick.
And whenever that gets dull, I'll just go back to taking long naps and lounging around contentedly.
In a few more words, Yes... yes I would.
I wouldn't even think twice about it. For me, there's absolutely no dilemma involved in this situation. For one, I harbor no deluded concept of the sanctity of life. I don't give a damn who lives or dies, unless I happen to be particularly fond of that person. There are decidedly few people I am at all fond of, too, which means that the field is wide open with prey.
Secondly, with telekinetic powers... there's no worry of getting caught. I'd just spend a few months learning how to fire a gun with my mind, or strangle someone, or hang them, or electrocute them from across the alley... and then I'd go to work. Best part of that is that there's no fingerprints or evidence, so it's not like I'd have to worry about getting arrested and tossed in prison like so many other folks.
So in the end, it really just comes down to "What would I do with that kind of time?"
Easy enough to answer: Whatever I Damn Well Please.
I mean, I could spend a few centuries as a local deity... read every book ever written... take long naps in the shade down by the lake. I could take a couple hundred million years to explore the Universe... map it all out... learn what makes it tick.
Of course, to do that I'd need to keep a supply of humans with me, so maybe I'd off a few old rich guys and use their money to invest in the Space Program. Fund some colonization missions, once we get the whole 'growing an atmosphere' and 'terraforming' things down, just to maximize the potential worlds we could inhabit.
I'd go on like that for a while, I'm sure, but eventually it might get a little dull.
When that happens, I figure I'll just start teaching myself genetics and biology and some ecology and the like... maybe seed my own world and watch it for a billion years or so as life grows on it. Observe them, see what makes 'em tick.
And whenever that gets dull, I'll just go back to taking long naps and lounging around contentedly.
This should really say you stop aging and gain strong telekinetic powers but the catch is that for each person you kill you must live one more year.SlaveNumber23 said:
There are a lot of bad people in the world and given the power I would kill them, but forcing me to live one more year per person I kill would really make me prioritize my targets. Killing all of the rapists, child molesters, ect. would be tempting but thats a lot of years, way too many. It would be very hard to decided who to kill and who to let be, I would want to do as much good as possible but I don't want to live for too long but the longer I live the more good I can do. I think the hardest choice would be choosing to stop because if you stop someone like Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Leopold II of Belgium, Cromwell, or any of the many evil leaders, could come to power but if you just keep living then you can continue to protect people. Dieing would be a final selfish act.
Honestly? I would take a trip through town a telepathically kill a thousand random people just so I'm paid up for the next thousand years.SlaveNumber23 said:
Then in the future I would probably take a train trip around the country and telepathically kill a million random bystanders in the cities I pass just so I'm paid up for another million years in case humans become rare in the future and I end up having trouble feeding my immortality.
I'd become a super-powered Dexter Morgan, and eventually I would establish a cult. I'm sure people would be willing to follow and worship a vigilante serial killer with longevity and telekinesis.
That's the best thing about this "immortality". If you can't find anyone who deserves death one year... you can choose not to kill, and die secure in the (very personal and subjective) knowledge that you've done all you could to make the world a better place.succundo said:
Honestly, how many people get to experience that?
Joining the army would probably help you out with that whole "being hard to kill gangsters" thing while the moral implications are thrown out the window if you're doing it for what you believe is right.Goofguy said:
And hell, we're never short of tyrannical dictators to kill lately. But I agree on your first two sentences. Its not immortality, especially if this world goes tits up at some point. Hell, live long enough, you wouldn't even be killing humans anymore, we'd have evolved, what then?
I'd probably start good, then once I stopped caring about all the killing im doing I would kill anyone getting in my way (Police trying to prevent me from killing criminals) then probably (Military trying to prevent me from killing policement) And once that rampage is going on well, im already evil arent I? xD.
Not sure if this has been asked already, but can I only kill one person per year? Or could I say, gun down a hundred people in one go and not bother killing anyone else for the next 100 years. Basically, can I bank my kills and if so, do I get a bulk discount. Say, kill 100 people and get 110 years back?