If you were turning into an alien...

[Internet Kraken]

Well great. I just accidentally ruined part of District 9 by reading this thread.

 

[Pm0n3y]

if i still keep my human form but gain superpowers or sumptin then hell yeah! but if not then i would use my newfangled powers to help the aliens get home (i hope that guy does that in the movie. i would be pissed if he doesn't).

 

[sgtshock]

I'd say, "Holy shit! It's like in District 9!!!'

ಠ_ಠ

God dammit, I was planning on seeing that movie this weekend. Thanks, jerk.
(I'll still see it, of course, but still)

 

[Andronicus]

How does it make sense?
I'd embrace the change. Humans aren't fucking special, any sentient races are the same and should have the same rights.

Yes, but humans are also selfish, and most would refuse to accept change. Do you think people just accept being disabled straight away, if it should happen to them? If they suddenly developed a disability for whatever reason, do you think they'd just say "Meh, this is who I am, better get used to it"? They'd go and see if there was anything that could be done.
I'm generaliing a little; I'm sure there are exceptions, especially if the change is beneficial, but even so, there are some that would reject that as well. Really, I think this would apply to most creatures, sentient or not. It's all about survival.

Humans aren't special, but we think we are.

OT: If it was beneficial, I might just let it go, but I'd damn well research it as much as possible. If not, I might take the "coward's way", although I must protest at the terminology you use; suicide is practical is many situations.

 

[seryoga]

i think i would be ultra powerful and rule the world or something

 

[Cama Zots]

Coward's way out is literately biting the bullet.

BTW yeah I saw D-9 today. But there are plenty of instances in SciFi of humans turning into a member of an extraterrestrial species.

 

[Julianking93]

What would you do if you were turning into an alien? Try to cure yourself and stop turning? Live the rest of your life that way? Coward's way out? I want to hear what you would do!!!1

I for one can say that I would have no clue what to do. Coward's way out MAYBE. Or maybe try to cure myself.

Aww. Did someone go see District 9 tonight?

I would be freaking the fuck out!!!!

[spoiler/]Especially with the 3 year time I had to wait to get cured!!![/spoiler]

 

[TyphoidMary]

I think I'd want to see how the other half lives lol. I mean, three years and you can get a cure, right? ... RIGHT? ;

 

[Guitar Gamer]

I'd start lossing my bottom two arms, my telekeneises would degrade and I'd sudendly have many flawes in my manner of tinking and speaking,

 

[pompom8volt]

Bang! *dead*

 

[GrandAm]

What would you do if you were turning into an alien? Try to cure yourself and stop turning? Live the rest of your life that way? Coward's way out? I want to hear what you would do!!!1

I for one can say that I would have no clue what to do. Coward's way out MAYBE. Or maybe try to cure myself.

Depends on the alien. The D9 alien; I would do anything I could to fight the change, but I wouldn't harm myself. I would keep breaking out into the human pop to get some ice cream.

If it is the alien from the episode of Southpark that is a walking and talking taco that poops ice cream...I'd be just fine with that, no worries. I would have all the ice cream I could eat. Unless it somehow breaks the laws of thermodynamics, entropy. You know, how can I survive the continuing cycle of eating my own ice cream and manage enough energy to keep my taco body animated/alive. Along the lines og a person can only drink their own urine so many times in a row before it becomes too saturated with toxins. That sort of deal.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

If I became an alien ... well ...

Let's just say the amount of people claiming to have been abducted and anally probed would go up exponentially.

 

[L4hlborg]

Atleast not kill myself. Being an alien can't be that horrible. I would attempt to cure myself, but I would accept it, if it was unavoidable.

 

[RebootBlue]

Totally go "Destory All Humans" up in there.