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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is basically the premise of the show The Boys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I know that if I had powers, I would be a straight up self serving villain. No question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's a film called Hollow Man that explores this. But the guy becomes invisible rather than being able to stop time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Inspired by the Ring of Gyges from Plato's Republic. If you ever wondered if there's anything new under the sun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yup, invisi-rape the movie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yaknow I just thought of one technicality that would make time stopping a very miserable super power. What if you are also paused. Or what is the physics of paused time. Like do you need time to make stuff move. If that's also the case wouldn't your clothes stop you from moving in paused time. That's not even mentioning air is also mass. That needs to move to let you move about. Edit: also if mass doesn't require time to move. What about energy. Would everything feel like it has a shit ton more momentum than normal. How tiring would walking be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

True, but you know what would really make them go out the window? If I were invisible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Time is a measurement of change, and is inextricably linked to space, so stopping time stops change of any kind. You wouldn’t be able to move even so little as a falling speck of dust from its (now) absolute position in space. You wouldn’t be able to move, and consequently even breathe, since your diaphragm has to change position for respiration to happen (nevermind the fact that matter can no longer be moved anyway, so air is now fixed in place.) Stopping time stops you, completely.

But since we’re talking about imaginary powers, if I could stop time, I wouldn’t even bother with anything in this multiverse, I’d just walk over to explore a different one a few trillion multiverses away. After all, I’d get there in no time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but you're not taking this idea quite far enough. If all time stopped except for you, and you posit that everything else is rigidly fixed in place with no exceptions, you would instantly be turned into a fine mist as your body slams into the suddenly stationary earth or atmospheric molecules while your body is still traveling a couple million kilometers per hour relative to the rest of the universe.

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