Originally posted by Silent Master
Finding one group of people committing a certain type of crime would take far less time than finding everyone on the planet that is committing crimes.
Originally posted by Silent Master
Finding them with TP would take at least Prof X level power and skill. seeing as you'd have to do deep scans of everyone on the planet.With an equivalent level of power/skill in technopathy, you could find them and all their customers in far less time, because their customer info would be in either their computers or bank records.
You'd likely have to do a lot more "this connects to here...now I need to find how this to connects him to this" type work with equivalent technopathy though. That is after you gather all your data. The telepath's job is complete with the scanning phase basically.
Heck, you could just watch America's Most Wanted and give criminals heart attacks like Kira if you had telepathy. You wouldn't even have to worry about L finding you because you're a powerful telepath. It's like the Deathnote but far better.
Want Osama bin Laden dead and you're a powerful telepath?
"Osama, would you kindly have a heart attack?"
Your will be done.
I wouldn't actually try to control the entire world though; depending on what interpretation you're using, you wouldn't even have to know other people's thoughts unless you wanted to. Some of the telepathy "defenders" here wouldn't even pick telepathy. I believe Omega said he wouldn't want it.
We're simply saying that telepathy has the most readily available benefits in the real world. It's a free pass to do practically whatever you want, whether you choose to stay within the law or not. The other powers are good and could achieve many of the same things, but telepathy is just all around easier/faster.
This is assuming sufficient power and skill levels of course.
Originally posted by D_Dude1210
And you don't see anything wrong with that?
All of these powers, at a high enough level, grant nearly the same thing. The funny thing is, I've heard more dreams of world domination from the people picking the other powers.
Morality wasn't the point of the thread anyway though.
Originally posted by 753
Why is it that when people think of using superpowers to make the world better, they think about petty vigilantism against common criminals and not about eliminating hunger, AIDS or the ecological crisis?
Originally posted by StyleTime
Meh. You'd have to do extra work with either of these powers to locate anonymous criminals. It's not like the people subscribing to illegal organizations/websites aren't trying to hide their identity.You'd likely have to do a lot more "this connects to here...now I need to find how this to connects him to this" type work with equivalent technopathy though. That is after you gather all your data. The telepath's job is complete with the scanning phase basically.
Heck, you could just watch America's Most Wanted and give criminals heart attacks like Kira if you had telepathy. You wouldn't even have to worry about L finding you because you're a powerful telepath. It's like the Deathnote but far better.
Want Osama bin Laden dead and you're a powerful telepath?
"Osama, would you kindly have a heart attack?"
Your will be done.
Not really, you basically ask the computer to find the sites and once you found them, you ask that computer for the information you want.