Discussion You get to choose the motive of a real-life supervillain. What would you have them do?

[Alexei_Kirillov]

Fun little thought experiment, be creative. Let's say there's a supervillain who has the resources to achieve any end you want, no matter how impractical. What would you have them do?

Personally I'd want them to nuke the internet and make it so that it can never be re-invented again. (Ironic, I know, but I genuinely think on balance it has caused significantly more harm than good).

 

[EyesOfNight]

Arson, they would do a shit ton of arson and other destruction. This would force humanity to gather in a single city. Then they would launch all nukes available at that city. With that, all of humanity except the "villain" would die. They would observe the spectacle from a safe distance, watching all of humanity and their last refuge go up in flame, shedding a single happy tear before shooting themselves.

 

[JKFleck]

In this forum this would be normal but for the outside global society I'd be viewed as a "supervillain psychopath":

Legalizing assisted suicide under the circumstances that the person who wants to do it is at a sound/rational/wise state of mind and consistently wants to do it for a certain extended period of time (Having some sort of system that separates people who really want to die and have thought through it for a long time from those who only kinda/temporarily/impulsively want to die, what will the criteria be? idk

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I would get them to invent some sort of device to have the ability to mind control any human they want to at will and to change their mindset and their views about life and society. Sadly it would have to go to this amount of magnitude just to make people not inflict unnecessary and pointless suffering upon each other. Though, since the guy behind the device is a villain, they can let chaos occur with it for all I care

 

[Havnis]

I would like him to give 7 trillion dollars to Sam Altman who asked for it to develop AI. I also want him to fragment society based on IQ and ensure genetic assortative mating, as well as diminish human rights associated with experiments related to genomic manipulation.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I would simply make them use all of their vast resources to get me a girlfriend. Even if it creates the ultimate dystopia just to be possible. Even if humanity has to regress thousands of years to make it possible. Even if everybody else has to die to make it happen. Truly me being in a relationship would be the greatest atrocity in human history.

 

[Scythe]

Destroy all human life in a way that best perserves earth's natural environment.

 

[Alexei_Kirillov]

@sserafim curious to see if you have any ideas

 

[Forveleth]

Destroy all human life in a way that best perserves earth's natural environment.

Came to say this. Humanity needs to go. Everything else can stay.