# Advantages of invisibility **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933 "2003-07-08T03:59:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/1 "2003-07-08T03:59:33Z")
1. No one can see you. 2. Um… 3. even Opal can’t help this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/2 "2003-07-08T04:39:38Z")
1. You can get close enough to the President to draw a moustache on his face with black marker. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Physiognomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@The\_Physiognomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Physiognomist)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/3 "2003-07-08T05:36:54Z")
1. No one can make fun of you for being a six-foot-tall albino. ---
**Author:** ![Publius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Publius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Publius)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/4 "2003-07-08T05:43:01Z")
The biggest disadvantage of invisibility, presumably, is that you wouldn’t be able to see anything either. In preventing light from reflecting off yourself, wouldn’t you also prevent light from entering your eye? But, um… 6) You don’t have to worry about being photogenic? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/5 "2003-07-08T05:43:41Z")
1. If you do something evil, at least you don’t have to look at yourself in the mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/6 "2003-07-08T07:36:01Z")
I can’t believe we are 5 posts into this and no one has said… entering the locker room of the opposite sex. Maybe I’m a perv. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/7 "2003-07-08T12:33:24Z")
Actually, Fugazi, I think that goes without saying. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/8 "2003-07-08T12:37:33Z")
1. I can whack people on the head, laugh maniacly, and watch their alarmed reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/9 "2003-07-08T12:50:48Z")
1. I often thought that I would like to become the most feared vigilante around. Essentially if I had invisibility powers, I’d team up with a local cop, get names and numbers of known child molester’s wife beaters, rapists etc…etc… and beat the living snot out of them whilst they sleep. They’d think they were being beaten by a ghost from the furthest reaches of Hades. I’ve thought about this a lot. Especially after the 9 year old little girl down the road was beaten to death by her father while the mother stood back and watched - helpless. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advantages-of-invisibility/186933/10 "2003-07-08T13:02:29Z")
1. Not having to buy clothes. I guess this might tend to keep one indoors in cold weather…