Poll: You invent a cure for everything...what do you do with it.
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I would pass a crippled version to the government, and allow them to deliver the swill to the masses. Then I'd begin on forming my own religion, slowly mixing the real stuff to give to my followers, and drinking it on television to cure myself infront of thousands of S.T.D.'s, cancer and the like.
The broken, the crippled, the weak and sick will all comes to me, and I will heal them, every last one. I will have them work for me, give to my needs. They will steal for me, their children will never suffer a cold, so long as they follow my will.
Police, politician will turn their faces up to me. The second the president's daughter needs a kidney replacement, or the prime minister who suffers from artritis, I will be there. They will do for me, and when I've amassed enough power, I will simply allow the world doses for free, as long as they follow my image.
Religions will crumble, and be forgotten under the movement of my generousity. Then I will have the world work to building my empire, and focusing toward the stars.
Upon my death, I will destroy my refinery, telling the world their immune systems will not save them the apocalypse to come, less they work towards excaping this planet for the sterile voids of space.
My death will undo my life's work, but mankind's survival lays in getting us off this rock, even if I have to burn utopia to do it.
The broken, the crippled, the weak and sick will all comes to me, and I will heal them, every last one. I will have them work for me, give to my needs. They will steal for me, their children will never suffer a cold, so long as they follow my will.
Police, politician will turn their faces up to me. The second the president's daughter needs a kidney replacement, or the prime minister who suffers from artritis, I will be there. They will do for me, and when I've amassed enough power, I will simply allow the world doses for free, as long as they follow my image.
Religions will crumble, and be forgotten under the movement of my generousity. Then I will have the world work to building my empire, and focusing toward the stars.
Upon my death, I will destroy my refinery, telling the world their immune systems will not save them the apocalypse to come, less they work towards excaping this planet for the sterile voids of space.
My death will undo my life's work, but mankind's survival lays in getting us off this rock, even if I have to burn utopia to do it.
I'd make sure it also cures stupidity and idiocy before I release it, and make it so that it makes people think logically. Then, and only then, would I give it out for free. And when you say "cures everything" what does that entail, exactly? Stuff like Tay-Sachs and Heterochromy errors? Autism? Missing limbs? Para/Quadriplegia? When I think "cure for everything", I don't necessarily think in terms of just diseases.
If it cures mortality and imparts eternal youth, then I'd use it on myself first of all.
Next, I'd wander the world, doing odd jobs, learning anything and everything I can. I'd eventually earn enough to purchase my own island. I'll establish a society which is based purely on the physical sciences; a community of scientists. Eventually, a private space program will be established. From there, we'll colonize the Moon, then Mars, then orbital colonies around our gas giants, then asteroid colonies, then extra solar colonies...etc.
And *then* I'll give the cure to everyone, since now we have the means to spread outward.
Next, I'd wander the world, doing odd jobs, learning anything and everything I can. I'd eventually earn enough to purchase my own island. I'll establish a society which is based purely on the physical sciences; a community of scientists. Eventually, a private space program will be established. From there, we'll colonize the Moon, then Mars, then orbital colonies around our gas giants, then asteroid colonies, then extra solar colonies...etc.
And *then* I'll give the cure to everyone, since now we have the means to spread outward.
Destroy it on live TV and claim it as an act of righteous saviorness... claiming that it was actually a supervirus in it's later stages to fool people into believing that I'm actually saving them by destroying it... show some footage of ebola and leprosy and such to show what it would do to you if you took it... and all the while save the world from the excessive wars and famines that would happen a few years down the road from the effects of overpopulation...
so yeah look like a good guy for actually doing natural selection and the course of life a major favor, as well as letting alot of the idiots I hate die from things it could've cured, and also actually save alot of lives in the process...
so yeah it would work as both an act of selfish revenge and as an act of pious self sacrifice all at the same time... since i would've made nothing out of it except fame (possibly infamy) and the knowledge that alot of people would continue to die and let others have food to live off of for longer... keeping our population at least somewhat in check...
so yeah look like a good guy for actually doing natural selection and the course of life a major favor, as well as letting alot of the idiots I hate die from things it could've cured, and also actually save alot of lives in the process...
so yeah it would work as both an act of selfish revenge and as an act of pious self sacrifice all at the same time... since i would've made nothing out of it except fame (possibly infamy) and the knowledge that alot of people would continue to die and let others have food to live off of for longer... keeping our population at least somewhat in check...
Oh, for fucksakes. Not the stale overpopulation argument repackaged. You act as if humans are incapable of rationally assessing the economic and basic resources available to them before deciding whether or not to reproduce (and yes, this includes idiot teens getting pregnant and choosing whether to abort.)gabe12301 said:
But to answer your question, I'd sell it, but at a reasonable price. Cost + $6 per dose. Why six bucks? It's a friggin' cure-all! You didn't say it was a prevent-all. You think I can't make up the low margin in volume? I could make a very comfortable living from it without being a predatory asshole. And even if I couldn't, I could at least buy lunch selling a couple a day.
Sell it to each country that way I can make a shit load of money. I would make to very very public so they can't hide it. I know some countries might not do the right thing. So I will give it to charities like Red Cross. Also I would give some of my profits to the charities so they can get around to using it. No point in giving them the cure if they can't get it to people.
Hopefully I get a nobel prize. I bet I will.
Hopefully I get a nobel prize. I bet I will.
I know people that network. It's very simple: Sell very limited amounts to those with a LOT of money, and don't ship it to them. They come to a 3rd party location to be dosed on site.
Once several million dollars are amassed, destroy every trace of research, and every little bit of the cure that's not been dosed.
I'm rich, the world is saved (I'm also properly dosed), and the world goes on, silent and unaware of what happened.
I live off interest for the rest of my life.
All is good.
Once several million dollars are amassed, destroy every trace of research, and every little bit of the cure that's not been dosed.
I'm rich, the world is saved (I'm also properly dosed), and the world goes on, silent and unaware of what happened.
I live off interest for the rest of my life.
All is good.