Would you kill children to become smarter?

[Poopsancagizal]

Since I am under 13 myself, no way I'm gonna suicide!

[God Kefka]

you have a suspicious mind...

there's every incentive to make the world a better place under the capitalist structure.

I have every right to be suspicious that (if you are willing to kill a child in the name of science, knowledge, and the "greater good") you would not handle the knowledge very responsibly. That's not a knock on you, I don't think that I would be able to handle it very well either. We are people. We want to be good, but we often fall short. I wouldn't want my shortcomings to potentially cost the lives of millions of people if I misuse my genius. I am -and always will be - suspicious of the level of self-control and morals possessed by a person who has no qualms with killing a child.
Sorry for the late reply, dinnertime is over now.

Cant fall short when you have top tier intelligence in EVERY field of human achievement and a general intention to save lives...

You're being unrealistic.

[Constaniana]

This whole thread is fucked.

With a ridiculous hypothetical premise like this what did you expect?

[Utceforp]

Since I am under 13 myself, no way I'm gonna suicide!

You'd presumably pick which child to end the life of. Just pick a young cancer patient with no hope of recovery who wants to die, and you're set.

[Crownariam]

*when I went mad

You think knowledge will inevitably drive people mad? Don't be so anti-intellectual. Mad scientists don't exist in real life, you know. Except for Heinrich Himmler, but he really wasn't much of a scientist anyway.

I was being sarcastic.

[Arumdaum]

Oh god no

If I did I'd probably feel extremely guilty, be constantly bothered by it, go crazy, and end up killing myself or something

[Vetalia]

With a ridiculous hypothetical premise like this what did you expect?

True, but I've been watching Trailer Park Boys on Netflix tonight and that quote was too appropriate not to post.

[Utceforp]

I have every right to be suspicious that (if you are willing to kill a child in the name of science, knowledge, and the "greater good") you would not handle the knowledge very responsibly. That's not a knock on you, I don't think that I would be able to handle it very well either. We are people. We want to be good, but we often fall short. I wouldn't want my shortcomings to potentially cost the lives of millions of people if I misuse my genius. I am -and always will be - suspicious of the level of self-control and morals possessed by a person who has no qualms with killing a child.
Sorry for the late reply, dinnertime is over now.

Cant fall short when you have top tier intelligence in EVERY field of human achievement and a general intention to save lives...

You're being unrealistic.

I usually don't agree with you, but right now I do. The greater good outweighs one person, and besides, you could always just euthanize a dying child and achieve the same result. And if your political ideology or moral system is wrong, gaining knowledge will correct that.

[Utceforp]

You think knowledge will inevitably drive people mad? Don't be so anti-intellectual. Mad scientists don't exist in real life, you know. Except for Heinrich Himmler, but he really wasn't much of a scientist anyway.

I was being sarcastic.

Ah, makes sense. Sorry.

[Khorsun]

Who really thinks one person can ever become smart enough to solve worldwide problems?

[Timothia]

I have every right to be suspicious that (if you are willing to kill a child in the name of science, knowledge, and the "greater good") you would not handle the knowledge very responsibly. That's not a knock on you, I don't think that I would be able to handle it very well either. We are people. We want to be good, but we often fall short. I wouldn't want my shortcomings to potentially cost the lives of millions of people if I misuse my genius. I am -and always will be - suspicious of the level of self-control and morals possessed by a person who has no qualms with killing a child.
Sorry for the late reply, dinnertime is over now.

Cant fall short when you have top tier intelligence in EVERY field of human achievement and a general intention to save lives...

You're being unrealistic.

You clearly don't have an intention to save lives if you were willing to kill to get into a position to save them!

Knowledge is like power. And you know how the saying goes:"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power, money, knowledge, they are all the same type thing: they don't really change the person you are, they just change the degree that you preform at within your personality. If you were willing to kill a child to get to this position, then you are willing to kill an innocent. That willingness would be magnified by your intelligence. If you were willing to kill a child as the average-intelligence Kefka, then you would be willing to kill a child as super-intelligence Kefka. The only difference is now you have an even bigger stage, even more methods, and even more possibilities to pull it off.

[Anollasia]

This is stupid. The answer is obviously no.

[Crownariam]

I was being sarcastic.

Ah, makes sense. Sorry.

They need to invent a sarcasm font or something.

[God Kefka]

Cant fall short when you have top tier intelligence in EVERY field of human achievement and a general intention to save lives...

You're being unrealistic.

You clearly don't have an intention to save lives if you were willing to kill to get into a position to save them!

Knowledge is like power. And you know how the saying goes:"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power, money, knowledge, they are all the same type thing: they don't really change the person you are, they just change the degree that you preform at within your personality. If you were willing to kill a child to get to this position, then you are willing to kill an innocent. That willingness would be magnified by your intelligence. If you were willing to kill a child as the average-intelligence Kefka, then you would be willing to kill a child as super-intelligence Kefka. The only difference is now you have an even bigger stage, even more methods, and even more possibilities to pull it off.

Your logic is flawed though...

The scenario only allows me to gain intelligence ONCE by killing just one child.

So whatever killing I do after... would have to be for the greater good or for my own personal gain (and as I've already said countless times, under the capitalist structure providing solutions to the world's problems is very profitable financially)

[Timothia]

Cant fall short when you have top tier intelligence in EVERY field of human achievement and a general intention to save lives...

You're being unrealistic.

I usually don't agree with you, but right now I do. The greater good outweighs one person, and besides, you could always just euthanize a dying child and achieve the same result. And if your political ideology or moral system is wrong, gaining knowledge will correct that.

Will it? Would knowledge really change your system or ideologies? After all, it was that system or ideology that allowed you to kill someone! Besides, correct it to something that is right by whose standards? By your standards? By my standards? By religious standards? By cultural standards? By the child-murderer's standards?

[Utceforp]

Cant fall short when you have top tier intelligence in EVERY field of human achievement and a general intention to save lives...

You're being unrealistic.

You clearly don't have an intention to save lives if you were willing to kill to get into a position to save them!

Knowledge is like power. And you know how the saying goes:"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power, money, knowledge, they are all the same type thing: they don't really change the person you are, they just change the degree that you preform at within your personality. If you were willing to kill a child to get to this position, then you are willing to kill an innocent. That willingness would be magnified by your intelligence. If you were willing to kill a child as the average-intelligence Kefka, then you would be willing to kill a child as super-intelligence Kefka. The only difference is now you have an even bigger stage, even more methods, and even more possibilities to pull it off.

But what would be the purpose of killing more children as a super intelligent version of yourself? This thread isn't about killing children for the sake of killing children, it's about killing children for the greater good of increasing the intelligence of the world. If you became smart enough to cure any one type of cancer, you would be saving more lives than you ended.

[Crownariam]

Cant fall short when you have top tier intelligence in EVERY field of human achievement and a general intention to save lives...

You're being unrealistic.

You clearly don't have an intention to save lives if you were willing to kill to get into a position to save them!

Knowledge is like power. And you know how the saying goes:"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power, money, knowledge, they are all the same type thing: they don't really change the person you are, they just change the degree that you preform at within your personality. If you were willing to kill a child to get to this position, then you are willing to kill an innocent. That willingness would be magnified by your intelligence. If you were willing to kill a child as the average-intelligence Kefka, then you would be willing to kill a child as super-intelligence Kefka. The only difference is now you have an even bigger stage, even more methods, and even more possibilities to pull it off.

True, that kind of thing could become somewhat exponential.

[Utceforp]

I usually don't agree with you, but right now I do. The greater good outweighs one person, and besides, you could always just euthanize a dying child and achieve the same result. And if your political ideology or moral system is wrong, gaining knowledge will correct that.

Will it? Would knowledge really change your system or ideologies? After all, it was that system or ideology that allowed you to kill someone! Besides, correct it to something that is right by whose standards? By your standards? By my standards? By religious standards? By cultural standards? By the child-murderer's standards?

By the standards of someone who is smarter than you. If you became more intelligent, and your opinion on politics or morality was wrong, a logical extension of gaining more intelligence would be that the right ideology would be revealed to you.

[Crownariam]

You clearly don't have an intention to save lives if you were willing to kill to get into a position to save them!

Knowledge is like power. And you know how the saying goes:"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power, money, knowledge, they are all the same type thing: they don't really change the person you are, they just change the degree that you preform at within your personality. If you were willing to kill a child to get to this position, then you are willing to kill an innocent. That willingness would be magnified by your intelligence. If you were willing to kill a child as the average-intelligence Kefka, then you would be willing to kill a child as super-intelligence Kefka. The only difference is now you have an even bigger stage, even more methods, and even more possibilities to pull it off.

Your logic is flawed though...

The scenario only allows me to gain intelligence ONCE by killing just one child.

So whatever killing I do after... would have to be for the greater good or for my own personal gain (and as I've already said countless times, under the capitalist structure providing solutions to the world's problems is very profitable financially)

It isn't just once, with every new death a more IQ is added to you.

[God Kefka]

You clearly don't have an intention to save lives if you were willing to kill to get into a position to save them!

Knowledge is like power. And you know how the saying goes:"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power, money, knowledge, they are all the same type thing: they don't really change the person you are, they just change the degree that you preform at within your personality. If you were willing to kill a child to get to this position, then you are willing to kill an innocent. That willingness would be magnified by your intelligence. If you were willing to kill a child as the average-intelligence Kefka, then you would be willing to kill a child as super-intelligence Kefka. The only difference is now you have an even bigger stage, even more methods, and even more possibilities to pull it off.

True, that kind of thing could become somewhat exponential.

And yet I would just need to solve cancer or come up with a new economic plan that could save millions to repay the debt...

What incentives do I have to keep killing children for no reason?

After one killing, I'm already the smartest person on the planet and I don't think there's a stipulation I could kill more for more intelligence.

[The Emerald Legion]

Cant fall short when you have top tier intelligence in EVERY field of human achievement and a general intention to save lives...

You're being unrealistic.

You clearly don't have an intention to save lives if you were willing to kill to get into a position to save them!

Knowledge is like power. And you know how the saying goes:"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power, money, knowledge, they are all the same type thing: they don't really change the person you are, they just change the degree that you preform at within your personality. If you were willing to kill a child to get to this position, then you are willing to kill an innocent. That willingness would be magnified by your intelligence. If you were willing to kill a child as the average-intelligence Kefka, then you would be willing to kill a child as super-intelligence Kefka. The only difference is now you have an even bigger stage, even more methods, and even more possibilities to pull it off.

An idiotic bit of propaganda means nothing. Power doesn't corrupt any more than weakness makes you pure.

[God Kefka]

Your logic is flawed though...

The scenario only allows me to gain intelligence ONCE by killing just one child.

So whatever killing I do after... would have to be for the greater good or for my own personal gain (and as I've already said countless times, under the capitalist structure providing solutions to the world's problems is very profitable financially)

It isn't just once, with every new death a more IQ is added to you.

According to your rules. I was playing with Timothia's rules...

1. How much smarter?

2. Smarter in what way and with respect to which skills?

3. Would I get caught?

4. Which children?

1. Smart enough to be considered the smartest person in history.
2. In every way and in every aspect of your life, you would be mentally superior to every peer.
3. No, but you would never forget it.
4. A random child from {insert the name of a local grocery store here}.

Would you do it?

See? No stipulation that extra killings do anything.

With these rules, I have every incentive to make the world and myself better after just one killing. Condition 2 can only be achieved once.

What's the incentive for me to go on a pointless killing spree after?

[Crownariam]

True, that kind of thing could become somewhat exponential.

And yet I would just need to solve cancer or come up with a new economic plan that could save millions to repay the debt...

What incentives do I have to keep killing children for no reason?

After one killing, I'm already the smartest person on the planet and I don't think there's a stipulation I could kill more for more intelligence.

You don't become hyperintelligent after one death.

[Utceforp]

True, that kind of thing could become somewhat exponential.

And yet I would just need to solve cancer or come up with a new economic plan that could save millions to repay the debt...

What incentives do I have to keep killing children for no reason?

After one killing, I'm already the smartest person on the planet and I don't think there's a stipulation I could kill more for more intelligence.

After gaining intelligence, you may or may not find out that capitalism isn't the best system, or you may find out that it is the perfect system. What matters is that you now understand what is right, which is why gaining the intelligence is a good thing, no matter what you believe in prior to the increase in intelligence.

[Frisbeeteria]

Is Yugo-Austria a child? If so, hmm...

Hmm, perhaps we should think of this over retarded remarks and spam again

Hmm. Perhaps a *** 24 hour forumban *** would allow you time to rethink your approach.