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Shapeshifting (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 16 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Telekinesis but with perfect control. Turn lead into gold, bend light around yourself to become invisible, fly wherever you want to go, fake super strength by lifting stuff with it, make peoples heads explode.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah that'd be my vote too. If there's no range constraints... Like you could just yoink a fuckton of carbon out of the atmosphere, plant trillions of seeds instantly, etc: climate change solved. Watching tv and some politician or CEO is saying evil shit again: rip em in half mid speech for the world to see. Invading another country? Your entire military inventory from bullets to nukes just turned into dildos. War solved. Religious text or paraphernalia? Dildos. Public religious speech? Large diameter dildo. Religion solved.

    The amount of good you could do in just a few minutes...

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    And then all the unintended harms because nobody has ever done things like that and so nobody has ever thought what the consequences could be.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There's a really good scene in a JLA comic where superman and flash argue about this. Together they could just take away all the weapons, punish all the crimes, stop everyone from doing bad things ever. But the consequences of that are that it would take away the free will of people. Their heroes would become their masters.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Who was arguing which side? I'm guessing it was Superman who argued against taking away people's free will?

    There are also the unintended consequences to the economy and to the natural world. For example, provide food for everyone, and you accidentally bankrupt farmers. Suddenly remove CO2 from the atmosphere and maybe you shock and kill plants, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    Why no altruism?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, they could have gene-edited people's cancer away. Or redistributed food to places that need it.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah, they could have gene-edited people’s cancer away.

    Eh... Actually making the genetic edits is the (relatively) easy part. Knowing which genes to edit is the hard part. And 'perfect control telekinesis' doesn't help you with that.

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