Poll: Immortality, with a catch

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Eddie the head

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The fact that this poll is at 50% yes makes me depressed. On that note people who said no are the only ones I would trust with Immortality.
 

Alssadar

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I like how balanced this is, currently at 173 to 171, in favor.
Nonetheless, I would detest immortality. Sure, living forever would be great, but what's life without knowing there is an end that you have to 'beat' and do the most you can before it?
It's like the three hours before school in comparison to the Friday afternoon after class- one makes you actually do stuff and the other makes you sit around bored.
Oh yeah, and the conscious crush of knowing I've killed people eternally would also be a pain.
 

twaddle

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Simon Pettersson said:
Trezu said:
i would kill Criminal's, they deserve it more then anyone else.

go Death note up in this
Exactly my thoughts. I wouldn´t have any problem with it, if your immortal you can even take the jailtime ....
Would be like a nights sleep for you.
Same thought as along as there is no afterlife consequences I would kill truly evil people.
Drug lords, Murderers and rapist. But I would check the criminal pattern before I kill them. Also, I would use my immortality to save multiple lives so in the end I have saved more lives than I have taken..... And forget death note. I would go Casshern Sins up in this. Theologically speaking. Not literally tearing people limb from limb. I'd just use my telekinetic to make them brain dead but disconnecting a nerve or something.
 

twaddle

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Hey You fail to mention if you are invulnerable to damage. If I get shot or stabbed or held under water am I going to die or do my wounds have instant recovery like wolverine. If I can't do that then i'm not sure about the immortality thing. On the positive side you just gave me a great Idea for a graphic novel.
 

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ZephyrFireStrom said:
Goofguy said:
It's not hard to kill corruption, specially humans, they're all fragile in the end. What moral implications? Killing corrupted people makes you a good guy, it's as simple as that. It's similar to how fantasy works. Does killing a monster make you a monster? No it makes you a hero.
Ummm, what? Been watching a lot of Dexter? I do not believe that killing a criminal makes you good. You compare this with fantasy? Where the fictional monster in question tends to be purely evil in its nature, subject and entitled to no law and specifically presented as the adversary to the protagonist.

Real criminals are protected by the law, too. It may not be fair but it is what it is. If you condone breaking the law by committing murder just so you can live a whole other year, fine. Just don't try to defend your actions by calling yourself a hero.

Also, you may find it a bit harder to pull the trigger or plunge the knife when you're actually facing said criminal as opposed to discussing it on a forum.
 

Warachia

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So I'm guessing you are a big fan of Dorian Gray.
I guess I could just enter the army or join a PMC, unless you mean murder an innocent person.
 

Torrasque

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It depends if this immortality includes indestructibility. If it didn't, I probably would, but if it did, I'd do it in an instant.
Hell, I could go find some scientist that wants to know what the inner workings of the planet are, tell him about my situation, and he'd gather the people for me to kill FOR me.
I value indestructibility over immortality any day, cuz immortality would get boring after a while. Being indestructible would never get old!
 

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GundamSentinel said:
I would become a doctor and open a euthanasia clinic. I'd be doing something good for a lot of people.
I thought of that too but it's not murder if they actually want to die. Although some people might try to argue that point.
 

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Eddie the head said:
The fact that this poll is at 50% yes makes me depressed. On that note people who said no are the only ones I would trust with Immortality.
I like that this is 50/50. It shows that there is controversy in this topic, and controversial topics are the most interesting :D
Besides that, it boils down into two groups:
Group A: Believe that they would be able to kill people without any remorse or think it is no problem.
Group B: Either don't like Immortality, or have serious reservations about killing people.

Hay @SlaveNumber23, can we get some clarification as to what kind of immortality this is?
 

Tahaneira

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Hell no. I've always thought immortality would suck and I want no truck with it. Sure, it might be fun for a little while, but eventually outliving everyone you care about would get you down, among other things.

And murder someone for it? I have reservations about killing people for my country, let alone for myself.
 

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Mortai Gravesend said:
Eh, I don't even need to worry about the moral aspects of it, I don't think I could get away with it for very long without being caught and locked up.
Heh. That reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode in which the guy sells his soul to the devil for immortality, pulls pranks on people by jumping out of windows and in front of trains, decides to pull a prank on the police by earning the death sentence (via murdering his wife), whereupon his sentence is reduced to life in prison. A guard even tells the guy "Eh, life in prison ain't so bad. You've got like what, 20 years or so left? It'll be fine."
OT: No. Immortality alone would suck, and murdering other people just to extend it would suck even more.
 

Olas

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I'm wondering of some people are specifically voting how they are just to keep the poll 50/50.

Personally I'd just hunt down and kill murderers, child molesters, and people who talk at the theater. I'd be doing the world a favor. Dilemma resolved.
 

Blobpie

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I can see ways to make the kills justified (IE become the military's new super soldier, kill only criminals, etc)

But ultimately... i don't know.
 

brighteye

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Keoul said:
Heh I think after too long people would start to look like your avatar OP.

Question about it though, would abortion doctors live forever?
Well he actually said kill a PERSON, and somehow i dont think anything with the intelligence of a plant count. That goes for braindead people also. ( i see those as a previous vessel of a person, like a good frame to a good painting when the painting is gone.)
Interesting if terminally ill people count, but i would go with the assassin for goverment road, and if the goverment dont have a Iranian nuclear scientist they want to get rid of in a year - watch out dictators.
Taking a job as the switchguy in a Texas prison might also be a good idea, to bad that means alot of innocents dying also as the US record is less than 100% in frying only guilty people.
That downside also kicks in with joining the military, what is it in Irak ? 300000 dead and almost 10% of them military ?

Nah, i think assassing for goverment might look good, ill take out some mexican druglords for the resume and i am sure they want me...
 

newdarkcloud

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Byere said:
Trezu said:
i would kill Criminal's, they deserve it more then anyone else.

go Death note up in this
This, but not to that extent. See, if you wanted to live forever, you'd have to keep killing. If you're only killing criminals, even for the most minor infractions, eventually crime will cease to exist. That being the case, eventually, you'll run out of criminals to punish.

Also, on that note (no pun intended), with Death Note, I thought up a flaw with its logic. You only have to write down the name of the person and/or the date/time they'll die... but what about people who share the same name? What if there was a perfectly innocent man named Charles Bronson? How would the Death Note distinguish between him and the murderer?
I dunno, maybe I'm forgetting something as I haven't watched the series in forever. Does it say you have to picture that person in your mind as well or something? If that's the case, what id you don't know the face of the person?
Maybe I'm thinking too much into this.

OT: I'd go for immortality, even by this method. As for getting caught, how could they catch you. If you have telekinetic powers, you could use many a method to make it look like accidents. Hell, you could go for a full house by causing 2+ cars to crash and kill multiple people in one go (the bonus for murders would stack, right?)

Personally though, I'd prefer an immortality that DOESN'T involve murder. I'd happily live forever if it was passive (as in I didn't have to do anything... I'd just be immortal. None of this Highlander stuff where everyone else who's immortal will come at me for a chance to kill me despite no personal grudge, etc)
In the anime, you have to have the face of the person you wish to kill at the top of your thoughts. As you said, this is to avoid killing people with duplicate names. If you don't know the face, you can't kill them.
 

TakeyB0y2

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I could learn how to be an assassin and take out gangs... I wouldn't feel any guilt over that, hell I could even be a hero in addition to adding to my own immortality. And if I ever got sick of immortality I could just retire from killing people.
 

Adultism

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Ah, but I can do this.

Murderers, rapists, child molesters.

They would all fall by my hand. I may be evil myself, but I'm no freak like some of the people out there.

Specially rapists and child molesters. I have no qualms with making them vanish from the world. It would be a better place for all.

So yes, I would take the immortality, and not specifically use it for good. I hate people who go out and hurt others, and I want to return the favor.

I would not go around murdering them randomly, only one per year and I'd probably spend the rest of my time obtaining wealth and power.

I do sound a bit hypocritical though. I'd be like Dexter I guess.
 

guitarsniper

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Vigilante justice incoming. I'd be like batman, but I'd have to figure out some other totem animal. Maybe Badgers, they're kinda badass.