Pretty much the title. I’ve been watching more realistic super hero shows like The Boys and Invincible. The reoccurring themes is that with great power comes great immorality.

I think it’s easy for us normies to respect other people and their property because there are clear consequences for violating social norms. But what would the average person do if they had super powers?

  • nintendiator@feddit.clEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Boys

    realistic

    Ooooh boy do we tell them?

    The tl;dr is: just because you suck, doesn’t mean everyone else automagically does.

    Here’s the thing about the power to stop time: if it doesn’t come accompanied by a lot of secondary-required powers (2RPs) , then it’d become so cumbersome and harmful in short order that your morals wouldn’t have time (stopped or not) to flush down the toiler in the first place. Plusminus the “if you’d do it, you never had high morals in the first place” argument.

    Simplest cases:

    • No 2RP power to start time. Ooopsie there goes your life as soon as your start your first experiment.
    • No ability to transfer movement / moventum to things, including air, in stopped time. You could stop time to think over a plan, but not to take prep steps for it. Forget about going to bed to take a nap: even if you could move, the bed, the carpeting and the pillow would explode into plasma as soon as time resumed.
    • If time is stopped, that means you are blind, right? Photons going around are stopped, and they can’t interact with your body that way.
    • Breathing too, for that matter. Dragon Ball Z actually toyed with that idea with a character who could stop time but only while holding his breath.