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Asante
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Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? 2
#26853810 - 07/30/20 03:00 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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You hop on one leg around a fairy ring of liberty caps, and at once a fairy appears!
The fairy says: "I am now going to grant you a magical ability! From now on, if you point your finger to a human being and say "The Price Is Right!" the human and whatever he's wearing or holding turns into a stack of a hunderd 100 dollar bills. The person will be gone from the earth and the money is inanimate. So, point at someone and say the magic words and you earn ten thousand dollars, the guy transmutes to a stack of benjamins."
The fairy vanishes leaving you wondering wtf just happened 
But its true. You now have this ability, what would you do with it?
Under which conditions would you transmute a human being into a stack of 100 dollar bills? Tere won't be a noise or puff of smoke, it will be instantaneous as the person at once ceases to exist painlessly, leaving a stack of cash as a remnant.
Ladies and gentlemen of The Pub, what would ou do with this ability?
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Asante] 2
#26853825 - 07/30/20 03:10 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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A question to Enlil: Would this hypothetical scenario, if lets say caught on security cam, even be illegal? Is there a credibility treshold that needs to be met for a person to be considered guilty of a crime?
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Asante] 3
#26853850 - 07/30/20 03:23 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Bro, thats awesome
I would literally be converting people non-stop
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26853862 - 07/30/20 03:27 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would go around like a shinigami and release those who most crave death 😈👹👺 and give 50% of each kill to people who need it and use the other 50% to maintain a lifestyle where I’m comfortable yet continuing on in my service to death.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: The Blind Ass] 3
#26853868 - 07/30/20 03:30 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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There'd be so many piles of cash, I'd be swimming around the planet like scrooge mcduck.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: blewmeanie] 2
#26853898 - 07/30/20 03:46 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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is it it cheating if you do it to someone who you know is gonna die within a couple minutes? cuz that is a regular experience for me.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: morrowasted]
#26853900 - 07/30/20 03:47 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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That’s part of my plan - get your own 
Asante - what happens when two magic users of the flesh to cash changing spell casting variety simultaneously transform eachother into piles of cash? is it simply over? Or when two people endowed with the use of the magic - both cast it on on the same person? Do they get 20k per body instead of ten?
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Asante] 1
#26853955 - 07/30/20 04:20 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'd go to terminal cancer patients who are in severe pain and who want to end their lives. You know, the whole end of life assisted suicide thing. We'd have a big celebration of life for them, and then when they're ready, bam. That's the only circumstance I'd use it under.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: nooneman]
#26854054 - 07/30/20 05:22 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Reminds me of the Midas Touch. Just watching that on Disney+ with the kids.
Everything he touches, food and all, turns to gold. In the end he is left in a golden nightmare of his own design.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: O_Dweeds]
#26854070 - 07/30/20 05:31 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would just pretend it didn't exist even if I had it. I don't feel someone should have such a power let alone use it imo. Plus there is the risk of inflation happening if you do it too much or the money becoming worthless.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: endtimes]
#26854083 - 07/30/20 05:36 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Inflation would be true if it was a real economy/currency. Since we jumped off the gold standard (anything backing the money or representing value) it is just one group printing as much money as they want, one group printing as many bonds, trading the two, passing them out, and then demanding them back.
This is nothing remotely close to the American dollar/economy we had 100 years ago. This is the kind of behavior that ruins a currency such as the Dollar.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Asante]
#26854085 - 07/30/20 05:37 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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No
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: O_Dweeds]
#26854088 - 07/30/20 05:39 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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If we are going to have currency I believe it should be physical. Either both digital & physical or just physical; digital alone would be a manipulators wet-dream and and honest mans nightmare. As someone who began buying & using Bitcoin the month it came out I quickly realized this could immediately lead to endless manipulation if physical cash was completely phased out.
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Asante
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: morrowasted]
#26854091 - 07/30/20 05:40 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: is it it cheating if you do it to someone who you know is gonna die within a couple minutes? cuz that is a regular experience for me.
My choice was "I'm not going to use it except if someone seriously attacks me, as a means of ultimate counterattack."
Second thought was "oh but its a form of euthanasia that can be used to help people, then money can go to the families"
But I'd not go that route and only use it as a final counterattack.
In your situation, not only would it not be cheating but you'd do good there, ahead of humane euthanasia laws.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Asante] 1
#26854092 - 07/30/20 05:40 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would not use it myself
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Asante]
#26854095 - 07/30/20 05:42 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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People are the real magic, not melted paper.
I love both but would never dream of replacing a person with money.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: The Blind Ass]
#26854097 - 07/30/20 05:44 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
The Blind Ass said:
Asante - what happens when two magic users of the flesh to cash changing spell casting variety simultaneously transform eachother into piles of cash? is it simply over?
Some lucky git is going to find 2 stacks of 100s.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Asante]
#26854110 - 07/30/20 05:53 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Usually in the stories I read a power like that quickly turns to regret.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: endtimes]
#26854117 - 07/30/20 05:55 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Those are moralist stories. Not all of us have morals in equal measure and similar nature.
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Re: Would you use this magical ability? If so, when? [Re: Asante]
#26854127 - 07/30/20 05:59 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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You may be right.
But I also know that people don’t tend to wield such great powers responsibly. Maybe such stories are moralist, or maybe there is a grain behind such tales
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