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[RageBeoulve]

If you could obtain enough power to right every single wrong in the world, and destroy corruption for all time...

But in doing so, you would give up your soul in order to be tortured in ways more horrifying than you can imagine forever, would you do it?

I would.

[SovaNu]

nowai. and neither would you you doorknob.

[RageBeoulve]

nowai. and neither would you you doorknob.

Actually yeah. I could die happy, and it wouldn't matter how I was tortured. I'd still wear a smile because I would know I did what was right.

[Pyraxis]

I wouldn't do it, and not because of the torture. I don't believe in heaven/perfection; it's stagnation. So I don't think doing it would be right.

[SovaNu]

it wouldn't be right cuz someone would still be tortured. and change is the only constant. and it would be above all else, idiotic.

[SovaNu]

and rage if you know anything about pain, you should never volunteer for it. you're being moronic.

[QuirkyCarla]

Hell no. I couldn't be that selfless. 

[Pyraxis]

The will is nothing without the way.

[P7PSP]

If you righted everything that you perceived as wrong and corrupt in the world you would probably destabilize governments, social structures and economies that rely on such corruption and practices and inadvertently end up causing a fresh round of wars and factional infighting, ultimately racking up a higher scorecard than Joseph Stalin.

[SovaNu]

don't you people get it? if one of us is in pain, doesn't matter who, then there's still someone suffering, that's not fair. even you rage don't have the right to sacrifice that much, you're just naively thinking it'd work out somehow.

if you stick your hand in boiling water for an hour i'll give a homeless person some coins. to get you trying it out. it'll be worth it won't it? think of that dude getting a cuppa coffee because of you.

[TheoK]

If you righted everything that you perceived as wrong and corrupt in the world you would probably destabilize governments, social structures and economies that rely on such corruption and practices and inadvertently end up causing a fresh round of wars and factional infighting, ultimately racking up a higher scorecard than Joseph Stalin.

Sad but true. The world is so twisted that you cannot make all wrongs right with less than millions of dead, unless you believe in divine interference.

No, I wouldn't do it. But I would sacrifice my life for killing off some people who deserved it, if I knew I'd be dying of cancer or something soon anyway.

[TheoK]

don't you people get it? if one of us is in pain, doesn't matter who, then there's still someone suffering, that's not fair. even you rage don't have the right to sacrifice that much, you're just naively thinking it'd work out somehow.

if you stick your hand in boiling water for an hour i'll give a homeless person some coins. to get you trying it out. it'll be worth it won't it? think of that dude getting a cuppa coffee because of you.

 

It's OK to die, if it goes quickly, but not torture. I have managed to stand a lot of pain, but most probably I wouldn't stay torture very long.

[SovaNu]

it'll be a piece of pie for him, if he believes he'd stand eternal torture. it's just an hour.

[Blasted]

However, if you had the power to destroy every wrong in the world then you could also destroy the wrong being done to you ie. the torture 

I would like to say that I'd do that but I'm a chicken really and if I was being tortured I'd probably own up to every single unsolved crime ever done.

[P7PSP]

don't you people get it? if one of us is in pain, doesn't matter who, then there's still someone suffering, that's not fair. even you rage don't have the right to sacrifice that much, you're just naively thinking it'd work out somehow.

if you stick your hand in boiling water for an hour i'll give a homeless person some coins. to get you trying it out. it'll be worth it won't it? think of that dude getting a cuppa coffee because of you.

You're sounding rather John Donneish with that post SoVaNu, don't ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Rage.  Anyway it's all academic, portions of the world can be made better from time to time but it will never be paradise.