A Civilised Debate Thread

Although it’s not a full normal option, teleportation would be something I’d choose

As it is a super power too

okay
question for the future of this debate:
are the powers always active?
or can you choose when to use them?

id say flight if they’re always active, because you’d go mad with telepathy, and invisibility is a death sentence

if you can choose when to use them,
if your clothes turn invisible with you, id choose invisibility
otherwise, flight, because it’s always practical

and with telepathy:
things its not:
mind control
just reading peoples thoughts
just sending your thoughts to other people
it is this: communication via thoughts between you and another person, you can read their thoughts (but only what they’re actively thinking; you cant see what they think about you if they’re thinking about this book they’ve been reading) and you can send thoughts for them to hear

Well in the context of one person it’s assumed that only you can “send” these telepathic messages

Unless you want to include recieving it, which would be cool too I guess.

well you can read whatever they’re thinking actively
they dont really have any control in the conversation, because they dont have the power

you dont see their subconscious

Telepathy is Mind Manipulation (See: Professor Xavier - He’s considered Telepathic)

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning “distant” and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning “feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience”)[3][4] is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction.
-wikipedia

Telepathy isn’t manipulation of minds. it’s sharing of information.

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as for prof xavier, he is telepathic as well as a mind manipulator.

Thanks lol

Wikipedia to the rescue :stuck_out_tongue:

for the logistics
assume thoughts are like radio waves, and everyone is passively sending out their specific frequency

i think you mean powerlisting

and you have a satellite, for sending and receiving

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Telepathy

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and while that is useful, flying is still more practical in general

(assume we’re staying with Basic because that’s what I had in mind when i made the thing)

So yeah. Telepathy is technically Mind Manipulation.

Making somebody think something, so getting a free taxi ride or getting someone to stop doing what they’re doing.

I’d love to be Telepathic.

If Telepathy has mind manuplation then yes. I choose telepathy.

we literally just said that it isnt