Why You Wouldn't Want to Live in a World With Superheroes

What super power would you want? It's a popular (although to some, geeky) question. If “And why?” is added it can even give some insight into the psychology of the person you're asking. It's often depicted as being reduced to a binary choice like “Flight or invisibility.” When presented as a binary choice the powers presented may say as much about the questioner as the answer says about the responder. A question less often asked is “Would you really want to live in a world where comic book powers were real?” While it might be fun to imagine being the superhero (or villain) if such powers existed most of us would most likely not be the ones with powers. Would you really want to be one of the masses of innocent bystanders in a world where titans battled?
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Published on April 16, 2014 12:52
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