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[feotakahari]

There’s this thing people say sometimes about how superpowered people would wipe out humanity. But if an abled person wanted to beat me to death, there’s not much I could do to stop them. From my perspective, you have enhanced strength and durability, but you haven’t wiped me out yet.

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[sigmaleph]

well, there's the thing where if superman wanted to beat someone to death not only would the person being beaten be unable to stop him, but nobody *else* could either, or punish him afterwards by force.

obviously "superpowered person" covers a wide range of hypotheticals and they need not be strong enough they are immune to the use of force from ordinary humans, but if you assume they are, then it does raise questions about what you do about law enforcement mechanisms