If Superman existed

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
People fear what they don't understand, but I don't think its Superman's job to cower in fear of people fearing him, he knows who he is right?

See that is the thing, you use the word job, saying it is not his job to cower, but it's not his job to help people either, nobody hired him.

Also Superman might recognize why people react the way they do, but it wouldn't stop people from reacting that way.

Truth is Superman is a gift that the world in general just wouldn't accept.

If a god which Superman is, came down from the heavens, to help, would you refuse? Think about all the good he could do, stop all wars, stop nuclear proliferation on and on.

I never said I would refuse, I'm talking about the overall reaction from people. Yes he could do a lot of good. Then again people might also think about all the bad he could do as well.

People would be uncomfortable with the fact that there is a single being on this world that could end all life as we know it.

OK let me ask you something.

Say I got a wish from God.

And I said give us Superman, and he showed up, and he was an identical to Golden Age or PC, no bad, all good. And this is in present time when everyone knows who Superman is and what he stands for.

Would you still be afraid?

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
OK let me ask you something.

Say I got a wish from God.

And I said give us Superman, and he showed up, and he was an identical to Golden Age or PC, no bad, all good. And this is in present time when everyone knows who Superman is and what he stands for.

Would you still be afraid?

Only if he sneezed!

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
OK let me ask you something.

Say I got a wish from God.

And I said give us Superman, and he showed up, and he was an identical to Golden Age or PC, no bad, all good. And this is in present time when everyone knows who Superman is and what he stands for.

Would you still be afraid?

I personally wouldn't be afraid, but I think a lot of people would be.

Even now, after 75 years of knowing Superman?

Especially now in these times I think it would scare people. Or at the very least make a lot of people very nervous.

A lot of people would be afraid. A lot of people would assume he serves the interests of certain countries. They've explored his role before in situations like this. He can't walk in to Syria or North Korea and just magically fix things, as sad as that is.

Superman himself would, hopefully, win the trust of most of the people, but I don't think anyone would be completely comfortable with his existence, especially considering that heroes tend to attract villains.

People are still afraid of Muslims as a whole despite only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction being actual terrorists.

What do you think people will feel when a guy who can push planets shows up, no matter how good he or his intentions are?

And Superman in a world filled with other similarly powered beings, once felt Earth would be better if he and his friends ruled the planet as Gods. If it's just him, and nothing can do anything to even harm him(kryptonite isn't even a thing), you don't think there's a possibility he'd feel that way again seeing as how f*cked up Earth is and he could literally change it to fit his image in days at the most?

Originally posted by KingD19
People are still afraid of Muslims as a whole despite only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction being actual terrorists.

People are still afraid of guns even though gun violence is on a fraction of death compared to radical islam.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
People are still afraid of guns even though gun violence is on a fraction of death compared to radical islam.

I like how you mentioned something that had nothing to do with our conversation(because being afraid/hateful of an entire race and religion is so much more severe than fearing a weapon literally designed to instantly kill someone from a fair distance) just so you could slam Muslims/Islam. Nice brah.

You brought up Muslims and fear, I used an analogy. You didn't like it so you have this knee jerk reaction. Go back to debating movies. Clearly you are too soft for real world stuff.

superman would be a republican because he's a good guy and democrats are evil and have doodoo in their souls.

😂

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
People are still afraid of guns even though gun violence is on a fraction of death compared to radical islam.

Not every, or even most, Muslim is a terrorist but every gun is still a machine designed for killing things efficiently.

You see one is irrational fear of a group of people vs the rational fear of a killing machine.

I won't debate this here and get off op. Nice try to egg me on though.

Another one of your fails.

This is so irrelevant to GDF its not even funny.

No matter what it is, its still about Superman, it a hypothetical question. Its not controversial, and its not news, we have the OTF for a reason, and even there, your question will be answered.

Originally posted by Jmanghan
This is so irrelevant to GDF its not even funny.

No matter what it is, its still about Superman, it a hypothetical question. Its not controversial, and its not news, we have the OTF for a reason, and even there, your question will be answered.

In TI's case, this would fit best in the Religion Forum, actually.