Poll: Immortality, with a catch

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Keoul

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hensethe1 said:
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?
oh you didn't!
Muahahaha!
seriously though it's a legit job and I'm just curious :p it applies to other jobs that could lead to death like a bad surgeon or a soldier
 

lord Claincy Ffnord

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No. I wouldn't, even if you changed it so you only had to murder 1 person ever to gain immortality. I'm pretty sure I couldn't live with myself if I did which would kinda defy the point of being immortal.
 

Olrod

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I would like to refer people to: http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html

This is why my answer would be No.
 

Soods

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Murdering sure would be easy with ultra-powerful telekinetic powers. Of course I would do it!
 

Emperor Nat

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1) Become Immortal
2) Eliminate every terrorist, warlord, dictator, rapist, serial killer and murderer on planet.
3) There will always be more.
4) ???
5) Profit. By which I mean immortality.
 

PhantomEcho

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In a word: Yes.

In a few more words, Yes... yes I would.

I wouldn't even think twice about it. For me, there's absolutely no dilemma involved in this situation. For one, I harbor no deluded concept of the sanctity of life. I don't give a damn who lives or dies, unless I happen to be particularly fond of that person. There are decidedly few people I am at all fond of, too, which means that the field is wide open with prey.

Secondly, with telekinetic powers... there's no worry of getting caught. I'd just spend a few months learning how to fire a gun with my mind, or strangle someone, or hang them, or electrocute them from across the alley... and then I'd go to work. Best part of that is that there's no fingerprints or evidence, so it's not like I'd have to worry about getting arrested and tossed in prison like so many other folks.

So in the end, it really just comes down to "What would I do with that kind of time?"

Easy enough to answer: Whatever I Damn Well Please.


I mean, I could spend a few centuries as a local deity... read every book ever written... take long naps in the shade down by the lake. I could take a couple hundred million years to explore the Universe... map it all out... learn what makes it tick.

Of course, to do that I'd need to keep a supply of humans with me, so maybe I'd off a few old rich guys and use their money to invest in the Space Program. Fund some colonization missions, once we get the whole 'growing an atmosphere' and 'terraforming' things down, just to maximize the potential worlds we could inhabit.

I'd go on like that for a while, I'm sure, but eventually it might get a little dull.

When that happens, I figure I'll just start teaching myself genetics and biology and some ecology and the like... maybe seed my own world and watch it for a billion years or so as life grows on it. Observe them, see what makes 'em tick.

And whenever that gets dull, I'll just go back to taking long naps and lounging around contentedly.
 

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SlaveNumber23 said:
You have uniquely been granted the opportunity to become immortal, your body will cease to age beyond its peak physical condition and you will gain strong telekinetic powers.
However, there is a catch. To gain immortality you must first murder a person. Every time you murder someone your immortality will be extended by 1 year.
This should really say you stop aging and gain strong telekinetic powers but the catch is that for each person you kill you must live one more year.
There are a lot of bad people in the world and given the power I would kill them, but forcing me to live one more year per person I kill would really make me prioritize my targets. Killing all of the rapists, child molesters, ect. would be tempting but thats a lot of years, way too many. It would be very hard to decided who to kill and who to let be, I would want to do as much good as possible but I don't want to live for too long but the longer I live the more good I can do. I think the hardest choice would be choosing to stop because if you stop someone like Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Leopold II of Belgium, Cromwell, or any of the many evil leaders, could come to power but if you just keep living then you can continue to protect people. Dieing would be a final selfish act.
 

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SlaveNumber23 said:
You have uniquely been granted the opportunity to become immortal, your body will cease to age beyond its peak physical condition and you will gain strong telekinetic powers.

However, there is a catch. To gain immortality you must first murder a person. Every time you murder someone your immortality will be extended by 1 year. You cannot pay or persuade someone else to commit the murder for you and you cannot set up a trap to kill your victim, you must directly and personally end their life. Killing someone with a terminal illness or who is over 80 does not count.

Would you selfishly rob someone of their life to extend your own and gain power? Converting many potential years of another persons life into a single year of your own? How would you use your power? Would you help the innocent and weak in an attempt to relieve you of your guilt or would you embrace the immorality of your human sacrifices and rule the world as a tyrant? Discuss
Honestly? I would take a trip through town a telepathically kill a thousand random people just so I'm paid up for the next thousand years.

Then in the future I would probably take a train trip around the country and telepathically kill a million random bystanders in the cities I pass just so I'm paid up for another million years in case humans become rare in the future and I end up having trouble feeding my immortality.
 

Iron Criterion

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I'd become a super-powered Dexter Morgan, and eventually I would establish a cult. I'm sure people would be willing to follow and worship a vigilante serial killer with longevity and telekinesis.
 

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succundo said:
i would use my power to hunt down and live off the deaths of people like Kony, or whoever the dictator in syria is right now.

If I run out of supervillans to murder then there are always the freaking somalian pirates.
That's the best thing about this "immortality". If you can't find anyone who deserves death one year... you can choose not to kill, and die secure in the (very personal and subjective) knowledge that you've done all you could to make the world a better place.
Honestly, how many people get to experience that?
 

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Goofguy said:
Erja_Perttu said:
SlaveNumber23 said:
Every time you murder someone your immortality will be extended by 1 year.
Well, that's not immortality then, is it? You don't extend immortality. It's just an extended lifespan dependent on some very immoral logistics.
My thoughts exactly when I first read this. It's not immortality, it's just killing one person at a time to increase your lifespan by one year.

It's too easy to say yes to this outright. So one of the things stopping people from committing murder right now is that there's no promise of one more year of life? Is anyone considering that it may actually be pretty hard to kill hardened criminals and gang members? Or how about the moral implications?

No, I would not accept immortality under these conditions.
Joining the army would probably help you out with that whole "being hard to kill gangsters" thing while the moral implications are thrown out the window if you're doing it for what you believe is right.

And hell, we're never short of tyrannical dictators to kill lately. But I agree on your first two sentences. Its not immortality, especially if this world goes tits up at some point. Hell, live long enough, you wouldn't even be killing humans anymore, we'd have evolved, what then?
 

Nikolaz72

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I'd probably start good, then once I stopped caring about all the killing im doing I would kill anyone getting in my way (Police trying to prevent me from killing criminals) then probably (Military trying to prevent me from killing policement) And once that rampage is going on well, im already evil arent I? xD.
 

tehfeen83

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Not sure if this has been asked already, but can I only kill one person per year? Or could I say, gun down a hundred people in one go and not bother killing anyone else for the next 100 years. Basically, can I bank my kills and if so, do I get a bulk discount. Say, kill 100 people and get 110 years back?
 

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ElPatron said:
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.
You underestimate how easy it is to create conflicting evidence.

A lot of murders have never been solved, add conflicting evidence and it's borderline impossible.

CODE-D said:
But the police would catch and I know Id be in jail for at least a year -_-!
kinda negates the point.
Murder gets you a lot more than a year in all the countries I can think of.

On the plus side, there are countries where you can murder 300 people and only get 25 years in prison.
Yeah that was my point, I only gain a year so whats the point if Im locked up for more than that.
 
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TheVioletBandit said:
Secret world leader (shhh) said:
I'll just move to america and become an exicutioner. Did i win?
Most states have done away with the death penalty, and others that haven't never use it...besides Texas. Sometimes I can't help but wonder if everything you guys know about the US you've learned from movies?
Everything i know about the US comes from the internet and modern studies. And i was thinking of Texas when i wrote that :)