Poll: Would You Rather?

[Vausch]

Does the "mortal without pain" option basically mean I can only die of old age and until then cannot be injured? Because not feeling pain is a horrible thing. Pain is there for a reason, it's how the body tells you something's very wrong.

Something people on the internet really need to start realizing is. Immortality is not invincibility.

The basis of immortality is that you are unable to die. While being hurt is still possible, the suggestion is you will heal from it at some point. Think Tuck Everlasting.

 

[Yopaz]

Being immortal and being able to feel pain.

Because not being able to feel pain is actually quite horrible.

Not feeling pain is really dangerous and might kill you. The question is if it's worse to die from pains you can't feel or to live through pains that would kill you, pain so extreme you want to die.

Honestly, immortality is among the most horrible things I can imagine even without the pain.

 

[LetalisK]

Immortal with pain. Pain is a survival mechanism and a very useful one at that...though I guess it would become redundant if I had immortality.

 

[Evonisia]

Immortal with pain. Pain is a survival mechanism and a very useful one at that...though I guess it would become redundant if I had immortality.

Immortality doesn't prevent your body from being damaged, though. You could burn some of your skin with heat without knowing because there'd be no pain.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

So, essentially the choices are:

A) Leprosy
B) Immortality

Yeah, I'm gonna go with A...no, wait, hang on, B! B, b I meant B!

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

I wouldn't want either, and that should really be a selectable choice.

That's not the point of the "would you rather" game. It presents two (often horrible) alternatives and you have to pick one, and preferably explain your reasons for it. Or you can always choose not to play.

 

[Eddie the head]

Well considering you said just immortality, not invariability, I'm going to assume it's the eleven kind. IE, you can die just not of old age or anything. Witch yeah cool that works for me.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Immortality sucks. Imagine living in a world where everything is dead except for you. The sun has disappeared, humans are gone, you are just floating around in space forever.

Not feeling pain is bad, but something I would prefer over the crappy situation of being immortal.

Ah, don't worry, you'd probably find yourself buried alive forever or drifting alone in space forever long before humanity died out.

 

[Yopaz]

Immortality sucks. Imagine living in a world where everything is dead except for you. The sun has disappeared, humans are gone, you are just floating around in space forever.

Not feeling pain is bad, but something I would prefer over the crappy situation of being immortal.

Ah, don't worry, you'd probably find yourself buried alive forever or drifting alone in space forever long before humanity died out.

Maybe. Still even without pain that sounds like hell. Immortality may sound good on paper, but it's really quite horrible when you consider it.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Immortality sucks. Imagine living in a world where everything is dead except for you. The sun has disappeared, humans are gone, you are just floating around in space forever.

Not feeling pain is bad, but something I would prefer over the crappy situation of being immortal.

Ah, don't worry, you'd probably find yourself buried alive forever or drifting alone in space forever long before humanity died out.

Maybe. Still even without pain that sounds like hell. Immortality may sound good on paper, but it's really quite horrible when you consider it.

Well, you'd want to have a bunch of other things as well as immortality.

Then again, one wonders how long it'd take the human mind to fall apart under the weight of too much experience, even if there wasn't physical degradation.

 

[Yopaz]

Immortality sucks. Imagine living in a world where everything is dead except for you. The sun has disappeared, humans are gone, you are just floating around in space forever.

Not feeling pain is bad, but something I would prefer over the crappy situation of being immortal.

Ah, don't worry, you'd probably find yourself buried alive forever or drifting alone in space forever long before humanity died out.

Maybe. Still even without pain that sounds like hell. Immortality may sound good on paper, but it's really quite horrible when you consider it.

Well, you'd want to have a bunch of other things as well as immortality.

Then again, one wonders how long it'd take the human mind to fall apart under the weight of too much experience, even if there wasn't physical degradation.

That might just be my main concern. I doubt it would take more than a few hundred for our memories to become cluttered making it impossible to sort things out. I think it would be kinda like getting Alzheimer's, which again is something I would die to avoid.

 

[Thaluikhain]

That might just be my main concern. I doubt it would take more than a few hundred for our memories to become cluttered making it impossible to sort things out. I think it would be kinda like getting Alzheimer's, which again is something I would die to avoid.

Well, according to some fiction, if you live for a few centuries, you go to high school and fall in love with a teenager.

...

Though I remember a better piece in 2nd ed 40k by Bill King, in which a Chaos Marine every now and then selects recent memories to preserve by magic/ritual and the rest have to be discarded. And he's still suffered severe mental problems that he's mostly recovered from now.

 

[Yopaz]

That might just be my main concern. I doubt it would take more than a few hundred for our memories to become cluttered making it impossible to sort things out. I think it would be kinda like getting Alzheimer's, which again is something I would die to avoid.

Well, according to some fiction, if you live for a few centuries, you go to high school and fall in love with a teenager.

...

Though I remember a better piece in 2nd ed 40k by Bill King, in which a Chaos Marine every now and then selects recent memories to preserve by magic/ritual and the rest have to be discarded. And he's still suffered severe mental problems that he's mostly recovered from now.

I don't like the idea of immortality turning me to a paedophile... mortality sounds more like my cup of tea.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I don't like the idea of immortality turning me to a paedophile... mortality sounds more like my cup of tea.

Better not read...almost any paranormal romance it seems.

Actually, that's another point. Who is to say that in 100 years the age of consent won't be 14 or something, and society expects you to be a paedophile?

 

[Vykrel]

well, feeling pain is important, since it lets us know that something is wrong. not being able to feel pain would probably lead to a much shorter life.

 

[Angie7F]

I would rather be painless and deadm but that is just me.
So I guess, painless and immortal then.

 

[DaWaffledude]

You mean my body is completely mortal, but I'm unable to notice when it's damaged? Immortality please.

 

[Thaluikhain]

You mean my body is completely mortal, but I'm unable to notice when it's damaged?

How do you know that's not the case? For all you know, some horrible lamprey thing is burrowing into your body right now, but its anesthetized you so you aren't aware of it yet.

 

[DaWaffledude]

You mean my body is completely mortal, but I'm unable to notice when it's damaged?

How do you know that's not the case? For all you know, some horrible lamprey thing is burrowing into your body right now, but its anesthetized you so you aren't aware of it yet.

If it was anesthethising me, I'd feel numb. Also, the likelyhood of there being a sudden outbreak of lampreys in Dublin City without me having heard of it is quite low.

Besides which, if I lose the ability to feel pain, then everything becomes a potential anasthetising lamprey.

 

[Thaluikhain]

If it was anesthethising me, I'd feel numb. Also, the likelyhood of there being a sudden outbreak of lampreys in Dublin City without me having heard of it is quite low.

Maybe it's eating the part of your brain that determines if you agree with me, and I'm otherwise obviously correct.