Because it’s the natural logical conclusion of the absurd economic and socio-political theories people expound on message boards?
The only issue with this is once everything was running perfectly I could never resist setting off an earthquake or letting Godzilla ravage the map for a while just so I could fix it again.
I should emphasise that I don’t plan to personally kill or even hurt anyone with my new powers. The only violence I envisioned was the ability for women to kill their rapists, and even that I’m already rethinking - it might end up being “cock-and-balls-disappear-in-puff-of-pink-smoke” venomous barbs, rather than “deadly” venomous barbs, or something. Just something to give all women, everywhere, the tools to fight back against rape themselves. Maybe a pheromone cloud that cause the decockification of anyone with hostile sexual intent in reasonable range, to take care of gang rapes, anal/oral rapes and rape-with-objects. Something else suitably repellent, but not deadly, for women who do the same, of course.
I’m surprised theists don’t use this as an explanation for why bad things happen to good people.
I’d be getting laid. A lot.
Why not be proactive? You know that revolting shudder you get when you personally imagine incest? Make that a lot stronger, and make it apply to all violence against other people. Violence no longer gives any pleasure to anyone. Everyone is deeply nauseated by the idea of hurting other people.
That’s my first move. It seems a lot better than giving women some sort of after-the-fact vengeance once they’ve already been attacked.
Post-scarcity society is the second move.
I think I’d resurrect Heinlein and get to plannin!
If I’m omnipotent, or near it, then it’s easy. Snap Everybody’s decent to one another. Snap There are more than enough resources to go around. Snap disease is gone. Need infrastructure in Haiti? No you don’t, it’s already there, go look, I’m on that shit, yo. If you’re omnipotent and omniscient creating utopia is as easy as wanting it. I’d make paradise on Earth.
For those who aren’t happy unless they’re pushing the limits, there are fast and reliable spaceships and I’ve terraformed the shit out of everything within my sphere of influence. Mars, some of Jupiter’s moons (don’t give me any crap about how they’re too far from the Sun, I’m omnipotent!), planets we don’t even know about are now lush and green and just waiting to be found.
For those who just want a sedate and comfortable life, they’ve got it. If there’s not enough room I’ll just make the planet bigger. Gravity’s got nothin’ on me. Happiest in a mountain cabin? There are plenty. You really enjoy the soccer mom suburban life? You got it. Want to be Jaques Cousteau and find new ocean life, I’ll make more oceans with cool new things for you to find.
Want to meet God (or at least the new omnipotent being on the block)? He’ll be tending his garden in the Texas hill country. Don’t be scared, he’s in a good mood, his tomatoes are coming along nicely this year.
Um… a few thousand light-years radius from Earth? Heck there’s gotta be a more interesting intelligent civilization within that range that I could be God to. I’m outta here! Sorry humanity, you guys are on your own.
The first thing that I would do would be to take a break.
I might have to dabble in politics a little:
Lobbyist, can still do there thing. But any contributions or deals they make have to be completely transparent to the public.
Gay marriage legal.
Separate the church and state.
Term limits for every public office held. Including the judicial branch.
Drugs legal and regulated.
Wars: If you want to go to war with some one; fine. But now all wars will be fought mid evil style. No more sitting back in an office some 2000 miles away while you push buttons and kill people.
If your going to kill someone, you should have to see the look in there face as they are taking their dying breath.
Also, all congress members that were for the war will live in the warzone until the war is over or diplomatic relations are restored.
These rules would be for all countries world wide.
I’d transform great numbers of human beings into representatives of species endangered by human activity. If I can get my hands on the genetic code, I’d repopulate extinct species as well.
Probably not all at once, as amusing as it would be to have an entire city wake up one morning as an equivalent biomass of passenger pigeons. I suppose I’d have to manifest apparitions and angels to act in an educative capacity. “OK, you’re an elephant now, you’re going to have to learn migration patterns, and you’re a lot stronger than you were–no don’t step on that!”
Because I don’t want to mess with people’s fundamental “peopleness”, I think.
No, I don’t. I mean, I do get a shudder if I think about my mom that way, but that’s because she’s physically repulsive. I don’t get that for my sister or cousins. I’m not saying I’m into them or anything, but the mere thought of sex with them doesn’t repulse me.
But I get your larger point - and it’s a good one. But it does leave the humans on the fringes of my influence susceptible to attack by human-seeming outsiders…
also, I’d have to make sure it didn’t apply to mock-fighting. I love my Renaissance rapier…
I wasn’t going for after-the-fact, more like start-of-the-fact-with-extra-cock-dropping-humour. Note that I also went with “Possibly mental blocks in everyone such that attempting forced sex triggers paralysis or coma” in my first post.
Aaaawww! I don’t WANNA have sex with my mom! :eek:
What if with your new found knowledge, you find that in order to sway changes in to right direction you have to coordinate the most Evil of things to accomplish this?
Like BBQ 6 million people. :eek:
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”
But seriously, I’d be reluctant to kill even a single person, no matter how deserving.
If I was devising a method of punishment for evil individuals at the moment of their death I’d make them relive the entire lives of their victims from the perspective of their victims. If they were unrepentent they would simply cease to exist, I’m not a cruel godlike entity, if repentent they’d get the same choice as everyone else:
(a) Oblivion
(b) Reincarnation - with or without memories intact
(c) No input on my part, they can find out if there is or isn’t an afterlife themselves
(d) Their choice, it would be interesting to see what people would come up with, whether I’d grant it or not would be up to me.
I said I wouldn’t get into the afterlife business but its kind of hard not to!
Then I wouldn’t be me personality-wise, nor would I have the limited omnipotence the OP postulates - no omnipotent being ever needs to resort to violence, ever.
Well, some folks just need killin’.
I would make war impossible, if a person even considered warring against any other person, his or her life would be immediately terminated, by light rod energy instant death! Millions would perish before violence would cease to exist.
Fear of this light rod would eventually end greed, hate, cruelty, and bad will or prejudice of any kind.
Next I would start a crazy religion where people had to be kind, compassionate, caring of one another, and all animal, plant and insect life. The only way to score points in this religion would be to heal the earth in some way,
Finally, I would force people to evolve, by shrinking their earthly bodies to the size of hummingbirds.