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brin_bellway) wrote2019-03-24 10:28 am
brin_bellway) wrote2019-03-24 10:28 am
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A thought experiment
Inspired by a choice game I saw once and perhaps somewhat by torture vs dust specks.
[fairly strong cw: death, aging; FWIW, I would probably advise a version of me who had not already thought of this not to read it]
Say you were granted the power to, once per day, steal one day of lifeforce from a human with which you are in skin-to-skin contact. On each day that you use the power, you do not age, and the target you stole from ages two days.
(You *cannot* store up charges: if you *don't* use your power on a given day, that opportunity is lost.)
Would you use it? To the extent that you consider this a distinct question, *should* you use it?
Follow-up questions in a comment, to give you a chance to think it over first.
[fairly strong cw: death, aging; FWIW, I would probably advise a version of me who had not already thought of this not to read it]
Say you were granted the power to, once per day, steal one day of lifeforce from a human with which you are in skin-to-skin contact. On each day that you use the power, you do not age, and the target you stole from ages two days.
(You *cannot* store up charges: if you *don't* use your power on a given day, that opportunity is lost.)
Would you use it? To the extent that you consider this a distinct question, *should* you use it?
Follow-up questions in a comment, to give you a chance to think it over first.