Superpowers are useless
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If I didn't know that this was that insufferable idiot Alan Moore, I would have thought it's a mildly amusing stand up comedy routine.
The world he envisions is as banal and boring as his monotone voice. There certainly wouldn't be military applications to somebody who could incinerate something just by looking at it. Oh no, we'll just have that guy soldering plumbing joints as a tradesman.
Remember X2, where Nightcrawler sliced through all of the Secret Service at the White House and almost stabbed the president in about 30 seconds? The fundamental dynamics of power would change when the richest men in the world and the most powerful armies can't stand up against an illiterate preteen from a favela in Brazil.
I think if superpowers were real, the world would be a much more frightening place. How bad would be in direct proportion to the number of people that had them and how much more powerful those gifts made them from normal humans. The one thing it wouldn't be is boring.
Lol but we shouldn't do anything about them because they're nice people like the gays! X men is so retarded.
The human race would likely not survive if a significant percentage had super powers. We would be stuck at a subsistence level because the highest level of organization would be warbands under the guys with the strongest powers. They would be literally invincible and would rape and murder at their discretion.
Pretty sure that was one of the points Cauldron made in Worm
Don't think about how much damage some individual can do today vs 100 years ago then.
Two people with manual labor jobs could blow up an office building. A few more could take down a skyscraper. Five people in a Chinese virus lab disrupted global trade and killed many people.
I think this is the undercurrent behind the New World Order. The elites, as you explained, are terrified of individual people having power. And the force multipliers from technology only grow daily.
What to do is a real question. We can't have people with gene printers making super viruses (and it's not that hard to do) without totally changing society to isolate people. We also can't have lizard pedos controlling everyone's thoughts with brain microchips and/or Google search.
Probably the best solution is to spread out to all the planets, but that's maybe too far off.
I don't want to belie the complexity of the topic, but the potential for these things to happen is normally low. For instance, it's been possible to assassinate people by kamikaze ever since the advent of powered flight, even the most powerful people, but it's only happened a few times because of layers of social, professional, and informational constraints. As our culture falls apart, granted, some of those constraints will fall away as well.