If real people got powers, do you think they would all become corrupt, evil psychopaths?

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Nope, cause pharmaceutical company would produce a drug that you take for a short time and never need again. Not enough profit. And they would have no actual control over the superheros. In the boys, all of the sups seemed to care what the public thought of them so much, they would do what the corp wanted. In reality, the ones who didn’t care would outnumber the ones who did. And they would just kill whoever they wanted, and threaten to kill others to get what they wanted. Kinda like the oligarchy we have today, but with far less constraint, and no need to even try to hide things like being pedos and racists and such.

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      22 hours ago

      In reality, the ones who didn’t care would outnumber the ones who did.

      That’s not true. Most people care about public perception. From dictatorships to narcissists to normal people

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        18 hours ago

        There are certainly people who do. But I think they are the minority. They do sort of bunch up though. So if you are one, you probably don’t realize you are the minority.

        • Auli@lemmy.ca
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          18 hours ago

          I’d say theybare the majority. Dictators care about their prescription. And look at all the people online trying to sell their public image.

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            2 hours ago

            Dictators care about how they are perceived because they used skills in manipulating how they are perceived to get into the position they are in. Making it a self selecting group. But when you change “how” they get there to simply be that they were given superpowers at birth, you remove the self selection. So now it is just a random sampling of the population, which in my opinion skews toward not caring as much about how they are percieved if they don’t need to.