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BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

If you were given Superman’s powers, would you do the same thing as he does in the comics?

I try to imagine myself doing that, and I can’t imagine it would be anything but depressing. Oh, now that bad person over there wants to kill that other bad person. Probably if you went and completely stopped the fighting in the Middle East, people would just call you antisemitic. And then the moment you left, they’d all start killing each other again.

I suspect that, rather than trying to save or rule people, I’d just become an apathetic egomaniac. There’s no point to ruling humans. Just like humans aren’t obsessed with ruling ants. I’d probably just see them as the best available source of entertainment, and I’d only intervene if something interferes with the entertainment industry.

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