Power

[A.K.Light]

Let's say that you accidentally find a ring that makes whoever wears it invincible.

What would you do? How would you handle (or not handle) that power and responsibility?

[Doku]

Simple answer. Sell it to the US Gov to be used to protect the president, and retire.

[The Adventurer]

From what I see in the world today and in history a great majority of the people cannot use power responsibly or at best fail to see the big picture to the same effect.

Originally Posted by Doku

Simple answer. Sell it to the US Gov to be used to protect the president, and retire.

You have got to be kidding...

[RT Wolf]

Invincible, hmm?

I would probably do a few daring things like climb mount everst and then jump off the top or something. I'd probably get back into Bike Trials(flash video warning) and be a lot more aggressive and be ok with making mistakes and falling and stuff cause I couldn't get hurt. BTW, that's not me in the video, I just made hte video. That kid is fantastic.

The thought of robberies and stuff briefly crossed my mind, but, really, if it's just that I can't get hurt then it isn't very good, because I'm not especially strong and I'll probably end up running and hiding more than enjoying life.

[Brutha]

From what I see in the world today and in history a great majority of the people cannot use power responsibly or at best fail to see the big picture to the same effect.

It isn't that much power. You can't win a war with it. Someone can still trap you somewhere where you can't get out.

Invincible wouldn't be that much fun.
Invisible would be a lot more fun.

[thehexman]

Try to destroy it without hacking off my finger!!!

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely"

-- Lord Acton

[A.K.Light]

I would wear the ring myself and try to do good things with it. I'd be open to plenty of advice and teamwork, but I don't think I'd trust anybody else to actually wear the ring. It could be very devestating in the wrong hands.

I think there's about four basic answers. You could use it for other people, you could use it for yourself, you could give it someone else, or you could leave it and not have anything to do with it. It just depends on how you feel about power.

I guess you could consider destroying it an option, too, since this is all fantasy anyway.

[A.K.Light]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Invisible would be a lot more fun.

I don't know about that. I'd rather be invincible. If I was invisible I could die even easier than I can now because nobody would see me crossing the road. You would have to be really careful all the time.

[Angela]

Originally Posted by Brutha

It isn't that much power. You can't win a war with it. Someone can still trap you somewhere where you can't get out.

Invincible wouldn't be that much fun.
Invisible would be a lot more fun.

Invincible means you can't be defeated, conquered, or subdued; I interpret that as meaning you can't be trapped, either. You might not win a war, but you wouldn't lose!

I think I would take my magic ring on a trip to the Middle East and see what I could negotiate over there. I might also try sky-diving.

[Brutha]

Techiquelly you aren't defeted when you stand in a somewhere where you can't climb out. You won't die either, but it could get very lonely.

[Angela]

Boy, you sure are right about that, Brutha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freelancer]

I'd probably use the ring for a while to attain my own goals and do some dangerous stuff I'd otherwise avoid. After that I'll probably get bored by it (somehow attaining stuff/doing things just for me doesn't cut it for very long) and use it for the greater good.

[Liara Covert]

Hi A.K. Light,
I would recommend you read (or re-read) The Lord of the Rings. In a nutshell, you might evolve to see how useful it could be to find an active volcano and toss the ring in before you have experiences like Bilbo Baggins and Frodo.

[Freelancer]

Originally Posted by Liara Covert

Hi A.K. Light,
I would recommend you read (or re-read) The Lord of the Rings. In a nutshell, you might evolve to see how useful it could be to find an active volcano and toss the ring in before you have experiences like Bilbo Baggins and Frodo.

Yeah but would you do it?

[WanderingOak]

I guess it would depend on how the invincibility is bestowed.

If the wearer were literally indestructable, it would definitely give him the bravery of a berzerker. He would be able to leap into the midst of a battalion of soldiers fully intent on causing him serious bodily harm, shrugging off blows, bullets, and blades, and just wearing them down until they are all either dead or out of ammunition. He would be able to base-jump without a parachute, landing on his feet, and climbing out of his own impact crater unscathed. Such a person would literally be a monster, because he would have no limits. He could train to the failing point. However, since for him, there is no failing point, he could become a Charles Atlas Triathelete in record time. He could be like a Bugs Bunny cartoon and stick his fist in the barrel of a tank cannon, blowing the tank to smithereens when it tries to shoot him.

However, such scenarios are the stuff of fantasy, and would probably never happen outside of a video game. The invincibility would be more likely to manifest as just being insanely lucky. His survival in a certain death situation could be written off as pure chance- a fluke. He probably wouldn't be insanely brave unless he was a madman to begin with. He wouldn't even try to take on an army single-handedly, and if he did find himself in such a situation, he would handle it more like John McClaine than Superman, ending up bloodied and bruised, with plenty of fight left in him, surrounded by a suprisingly large number of dead and wounded adversaries. If he jumped or fell off of a cliff, it would result in our hero being in traction, or perhaps in his very own powered wheelchair, controled by a breathing tube. Such a scenario would be within the realm of probability without resorting to comic book or 'Toon physics.

If I were to be made invincible, it would depend on which type it was.

If I was Comic Book invinicible, I would keep it secret, and never intentionally use it. Of course, eventually, my secret would be revealed, and I would wind up fighting every spook, two-bit thug, and dictator on the planet, as they all wanted to get hold of the source of my invincibility. Eventually, I would leave such a long trail of bodies that somebody would panic and try to nuke me, if only to keep 'the other guy' from geting hold of me. After that, I'd have to go on the offensive, and try and take over the world, if only to keep the 'mortals' from destroying the place. After all, if I truly were invincible, I might still need the planet in ten-thousand years, and it wouldn't be fun living on a radioactive cinder.

If I was 'luck' invincible, I would probably just keep on going about my life as normal. After all, just because I was incredibly lucky, and would probably survive anything that was thrown at me, it wouldn't necessarily follow that I would go out looking for danger. I might eventually become a volunteer firefighter or something like that, but that would be the extent of the changes that it would make in my life.

[aabukar]

if i found it now then i will do the following

1. find the inner peace in me and make sure it will never go away

2. Design and develop the Sharepoint server application i am about to create a plan for it (make it developed by itself )

3. Make myself the most beautiful women in the world in my eyes

4. World peace .. (after finding peace in me i can find peace for the rest in the world )

5. Acheive all my goals and everyones goals in the world

6. Kill myself as there will be nothing for me to do in this life if i acheived everthing and there is no struggle whatsoever then what is the point of living :P

[Freelancer]

3. Make myself the most beautiful women in the world in my eyes

You realize that you do not need a magic ring to accomplish this?

[Old Soul]

I think I would throw it away

I don't think we are evolved enough as a human spieces to handle a ring like that, not that we are not a good people capable of good things, it is just that I think we are falable and that is alot of power....

Just ask Frodo:-)

[aabukar]

Originally Posted by Freelancer

You realize that you do not need a magic ring to accomplish this?

yup i do it is all in the inner me but the ring will make it faster

i am working on me now (PD development) i can say that i have made a huge accomplishment by believing that i am beautiful ... i used to think of me as the Ugly smart one (if you are smart then you can not be beautiful)

However, I have changed this in the recent days ... I am happy with who i am but still there are things i need to work on

[Carl Carlson IV]

I would wear the ring so long as I would glow and flash colors, much like when Mario receives a star from one of those ? boxes. Then I would proceed to just run through all the bad guys.

[warmless]

I would just ignore it and walk away. No need for such a thing in my mind.

[Michael Chui]

I find it odd that invincibility, a negative, is considered a power or a responsibility. It sounds useless to me.

[A.K.Light]

Could you please explain how it "sounds useless"? I can understanding thinking it's a negative thing and that you wouldn't want to use it for anything, but I don't understand how it sounds useless. Maybe useless to you, but somebody will make a lot happen with it.

[Michael Chui]

Invincibility is the ultimate maintainer of the status quo. Power and usage, on the other hand, are innately things that change the status quo. Thus, the only usage is prevention, whichi is not a use at all, because it does nothing.

When I said "negative", I didn't mean "bad" or "evil": I meant that it describes a reverse, like the negative of a photograph.

[ahimel]

Even if it offered comic book invincibility, I don't see myself robbing banks or taking on armies single-handedly or sticking my fist into cannons. I mean... why?

I'd save up enough money to get an MD, and go to Africa and do what I could to help people survive the perfectly curable diseases that people die of there. Or maybe just go to teach and work in inner cities in the US, knowing that I couldn't get caught in the middle of something and get shot.

In other words, the main thing that holds me back from my dream jobs and helping the people I want to help is fear for my physical welfare. I'm not sure what that says about me.

[medaille]

You could make one hell of a documentary on the war or other stuff if you didn't have to worry about getting killed.

You also wouldn't have to worry about getting assassinated because of your political beliefs like some have.

I would imagine that all in all it would be a pain in the ass, because you'd never get to sleep because every secret agency in the world would be trying to steal the ring from you.

[deathwing9]

Originally Posted by A.K.Light

Let's say that you accidentally find a ring that makes whoever wears it invincible.

What would you do? How would you handle (or not handle) that power and responsibility?

I would go to a 3rd world country thats highly religious and tell them Iam god. Then proceed to to kill until they belived me. Take over the government and be praised as a god and ruler. Enjoy the benifits of being a god

[Rippy]

Originally Posted by Brutha

It isn't that much power. You can't win a war with it. Someone can still trap you somewhere where you can't get out.

Or, they could just take off the ring and then kill you? ;P

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by A.K.Light

Let's say that you accidentally find a ring that makes whoever wears it invincible.

What would you do? How would you handle (or not handle) that power and responsibility?

I'd book some boxing or wrestling championships against champions and heavily bet on myself. Do this several times until I become quite wealthy financially

After that, maybe start beating up on some people who need some beating up.

[Brutha]

Originally Posted by Rippy

Or, they could just take off the ring and then kill you? ;P

Maybe it's the old D&D player in me, but magic rings tend to stick to the fingers of the person who is wearing the ring.
In addition the rings has to shild himself too, or it wouldn't give you the ability to move through very hot vulkans .

2. Design and develop the Sharepoint server application i am about to create a plan for it (make it developed by itself )

I don't see how invincibilty would help you there.

Invincibility is the ultimate maintainer of the status quo. Power and usage, on the other hand, are innately things that change the status quo.

I agree, that why I said invisibily would be better. Invincibilty is a completly defensive "power". You can't change much with it.

The "Lord of the rings"-ring is the opposite, it gives powers to control other people and things like invisibilty, that you can use to change the world.