If you could be either invisible or invincible, which would you choose? Invisibility could be turned on and off at will. You would be completely undetectable by the naked eye. In the case of invincibility, you would be completely unable to be killed or severely crippled. You would not be immortal - you would die of old age eventually, let’s say at age 90.
Of those two choices, which would you choose?
Personally I would take invincibility.
Neither is of particular use to me for anything I do or would be interested in doing. So I’d probably go with invincibility just because there’s probably more ways to make some money out of it (legally).
Will the objects that I hold on my person also become invisible allowing me to become a master gentleman thief?
I could have a lot more fun with invisibility.
A gentleman is just as much a gentleman in the altogether.
I would think that if you were invincible, invisibility would be unnecessary…
Invincible does not mean superhuman strength, it just means you can’t be killed. You could certainly still be restrained by other people. You couldn’t just scatter them all with one punch like Superman.
Invincibility would be more flexible, but I suspect that invisibility would suit the imp in me.
Invincible by a mile. You never know when you might get hit by a bus. But especially if invincibility includes diseases. While that invisible guy is peeping in the locker room, you’re free to indulge in every questionable sexual encounter without fear of STDs. Oh, and smoke, drink, inject, and snort with impunity.
Plus the indestructible man makes for a better act than an invisible magician if I ever wanted to put on a show.
What’s a Hollywood stuntman make? That’d be downright enjoyable if you knew you couldn’t so much as sprain an ankle. “Wait for the airbag to fully inflate before jumping off of this building? Eh, I’ll chance it.”
Or you’d make for one hell of a soldier. Just make sure to carry a couple of flasks and a Bible for all your bullet-stopping excuse needs. Or you could be the fighter pilot who kamikazes instead of ejecting, yet miraculously walks away.
Who wouldn’t want to skydive without a 'chute if you knew you’d be fine?
ow… being invincible doesn’t mean you won’t feel pain.
I’ll pick it too, not dying has got to be better than snooping around.
Keep in mind, in this situation you could still be captured by enemy soldiers, and be tortured with no chance of a merciful death to spare you the pain. If the enemies figured out your secret, they would surely torture you for weeks or months on end, in the most brutal kind of way.
You could still be imprisoned. In fact, being invincible, you could be imprisoned in a tiny concrete cell just large enough to contain your body (or maybe not even that; the solitary-confinement cells at the infamous Lubyanka prison, to which political enemies of Stalinist Russia were sent, were designed to be too low to stand up in, and too small to lie down in.) You could be held there for years, conceivably; you wouldn’t be able to starve to death; you would surely be driven insane. At least that’s what I would do if I captured an enemy who couldn’t be physically destroyed. I’d bury him 100 feet underground in a steel coffin.
Invisibility would afford a lot more possibilities than just voyeuristic peeping. Information is a commodity, and you could make yourself rich through industrial espionage. You could even serve your country (if you care about that sort of thing) by becoming a master spy…or you could become a traitor and sell information to the enemy.
If you could take physical objects, then the possibilities would even be more unlimited, but just the ability to access and sell information alone could make you wealthy.
And you could still peep locker rooms.
What does hitting the ground at terminal velocity feel like if there are no injuries? I don’t know, I’d be curious enough to at least leap off a three story home to find out.
I think there was an episode of the Highlander tv series that had a similar situation regarding tight and unending imprisonment. Yeah, there’d be risks being in combat, but I think most’ve them would be from potentially being found out by your own government.
Similar to the skydiving without a parachute conundrum, how would torture inflict pain if you couldn’t be injured? I guess water boarding would work just as well, as that’s an uncontrollable biological response and not full-on Mel Gibson-style movie torture.
If find this way too interesting for some reason.
The industrial espionage / spy game sounds fun, but I know it’s beyond me. If a folder full of DuPont secrets appeared on my desk, I wouldn’t know how to make a buck from it.
I was trying to think of a professional sport where invincibility would work well. Boxing? But then would I be un-knockoutable or just uncutable?
Freediving would be impressive if you drown but just keep on swimming.
I’ve thought about it and I think I’d actually rather be invisible and vincible than visible and invincible. The ability to find out secret information is just too good to pass up, as is the temptation to create chaos (of the harmless variety) to amuse myself. And it’d be just my luck to have invincibility, and then fall into a 200-foot-deep hole while out alone in the woods or something. And there’s the whole thing about getting captured by someone - once the government found out about my secret, they’d surely kidnap me and lock me away. Being invisible would make it way easier to escape from any given situation.
From a certain point of view, I’m already invisible.
So I’ll take invincible. I think I’d be able to utilise it to my advantage, in a perfectly legal way.
Might just be the inner cheapskate in me, but I can’t help but think of the savings on health insurance if I were invincible.
I’m feeling my age. Invincible easily gets the vote, especially if it means I stop hurting every-damn-where.
Apparently I’ve already been invincible for two-thirds of a century. That can get boring. It might be fun to be invisible for a while. Imagine being able to walk anywhere and to listen in on any conversation. I could play a few tricks on people who deserve a little haunting for their meanness and coldness. Yeah, I’ll take a little revenge and die a bit sooner.
Invincible. I’d be on the highest rated episode of COPS ever.
I think feeling pain is kinda against the purpose of invincibility. At least if you feel as much pain as a normal person. Who would do anything special with it if you knew it would hurt?
Also, for invisibility, are you invisible in all spectrums? Most importantly UV and IR? If not, it would be rather easy to counter your gift.
I think i’d have more fun with invisibility though.