Guardian54
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Better to have a tool and never use it then need it and not have it. I personally find almost all forms of "psychic" powers as nightmare fuel, but wold be willing to personally sacrifice a lot to get them even if I would probably never have a chance to use them...
I 100% agree with you. It is always best to keep overwhelming force on-hand, especially when you want to do live captures. Mercy is a privilege, only viable for those who are so overwhelmingly powerful that they can afford such.
If some guy trying to commit crime gets levitated by a Galactic Colossus and instructed to surrender or be taken more forcefully, they will generally surrender with much less fuss or risk to bystanders than doing this without such overwhelming force (a 130m tall mecha using its speakers is listened to more than some random person yelling at you)
If you almost get stomped, and you know you can stomp them one way or another if you actually used your power, then you are obligated to use your power unless you are TOO DUMB TO LIVE. *pant, pant...* don't mind me, I'm just scarred for life by self-righteous morality-wanks like Harry Potter--the first four books were good but the end of the fifth was WTF USE REDUCTO YOU IMBECILE and all the "oh you can do retarded shit and still win" later on made me SICK. Teddy is an orphan because of your inability to put Death Eaters down, Harry, and don't you EVER forget that!
If you are not willing to make compromises on everything about yourself if necessary in a war of survival, then perhaps you are not fit to win. In such a struggle there are in the end two sides: Justified and Dead.
Well, actually, this went from "Harry indirectly inflicted most of his own side's losses" to full-blown PTSD due to The Worm/SupCom Fic That Must Not Be Named, but I do still recommend marathoning said fic for a primer on Epic Scale Tinker Taylors.
For other examples of my agreement, see my most recent infraction on Sufficient Velocity for example of how vehemently I agree. It's in the California ISOT 2018 to 1850 thread. Or, as richly discussed in "The Little Ship That Could" (Worm/KanColle) on SB during the gang war, if a thousand hooligans decide to go lynch one person, the correct option for law enforcement is to mow down the hooligans.
I guess we're disagreed there, because I don't want such superpowers for the same reason why I actively avoid any positions of power, even moderation positions on Discord for example. I don't trust myself, I'm bad at it and I don't want the pressure anyway.
I recommend reading A Farmer's Tale over on SB. The whole thread, not just story posts.
The thread basically agrees that if you're going to make any changes at all (i.e. not resign yourself to just vaguely existing, and try to live life at all) then you will need to take on power and responsibilities. Doing nothing is just asking to get killed in a random whim by someone with power, and the same applies to Worm. If you don't have powers you're just another collateral damage statistic.
And for choosing to not have the ability to defend yourself (very different from choosing not to use such an ability, which can be considered maskirovka i.e. deception)? That's a Darwin Award.
I recommend you go be a Buddhist monk*, because they seem preach the most about everything being meaningless. You will very quickly find that even monks have the responsibility of working for food.
*NOTE: I started flat-out HATING monks who join before their children are fully grown after watching a documentary in university on this guy, the last Chinese Buddhist Master: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Yi
He decided to have a son with a Japanese woman, at a time when only children fathered by Japanese were allowed into Japan. Tensions against Japanese people were growing in China by the time he decided abruptly that "hey, vacationing in a temple is pretty relaxing" and ran off for his own "enlightenment" and ditch his wife and kid. In other words he threw a tantrum about his life being stressful despite being reasonably well-off and flounced off in a ragequit huff. Then he made a name and money for himself by selling calligraphy.
As far as I am concerned he and others who do such things are not worthy of being considered human. Happily, it seems that you are very unlikely to imitate him as you are more honest to yourself and to others about your desire for the privilege of apathy.
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