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Telekinesis but with perfect control. Turn lead into gold, bend light around yourself to become invisible, fly wherever you want to go, fake super strength by lifting stuff with it, make peoples heads explode.
Good luck plucking out the neutrons, protons and electrons off each lead atom, I've heard they don't enjoy staying still
Hence the "perfect control" part.
That's also not really "telekinesis".
Yeah that'd be my vote too. If there's no range constraints... Like you could just yoink a fuckton of carbon out of the atmosphere, plant trillions of seeds instantly, etc: climate change solved. Watching tv and some politician or CEO is saying evil shit again: rip em in half mid speech for the world to see. Invading another country? Your entire military inventory from bullets to nukes just turned into dildos. War solved. Religious text or paraphernalia? Dildos. Public religious speech? Large diameter dildo. Religion solved.
The amount of good you could do in just a few minutes...
And then all the unintended harms because nobody has ever done things like that and so nobody has ever thought what the consequences could be.
While true, absolutely worth the risk. If I have the power to completely end a hostile military, I'm not holding back for fear of what it'll mean for the dildo economy.
There's a really good scene in a JLA comic where superman and flash argue about this. Together they could just take away all the weapons, punish all the crimes, stop everyone from doing bad things ever. But the consequences of that are that it would take away the free will of people. Their heroes would become their masters.
Who was arguing which side? I'm guessing it was Superman who argued against taking away people's free will?
There are also the unintended consequences to the economy and to the natural world. For example, provide food for everyone, and you accidentally bankrupt farmers. Suddenly remove CO2 from the atmosphere and maybe you shock and kill plants, etc.
Why no altruism?
Dude you just got super powers chill
90% of people would become supervillains if they got powers.
Change my mind.
i feel like i'd be doing a fair amount of public service with which peoples heads I'd be making explode.
Yeah, they could have gene-edited people's cancer away. Or redistributed food to places that need it.
Eh... Actually making the genetic edits is the (relatively) easy part. Knowing which genes to edit is the hard part. And 'perfect control telekinesis' doesn't help you with that.
at that point, why not just choose somehing like reality bending or omnipotence