Mind Control

If you were offered the ability to mind control people, would you take it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 39.1%

  • Yes, but only to a mild extent/being able to influence their thoughts mildly but not entirely

    Votes: 6 26.1%

  • No

    Votes: 6 26.1%

  • Not sure

    Votes: 2 8.7%

  • Prefer not to say

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    23
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Mike Wheeler

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I trust myself not to wind up using this for evil so yes because there are some situations in which mind controlling someone can save someone's life
 
I'd use it to show people how to experience things from other people's perspectives / be empathetic. I wouldn't want to straight up change opinions or brainwash.
 
I answered with no, and the reason for that is because I have no desire to control other people's will in any way. That being said, I do think it'd be nice if people could willingly project their thoughts/feelings to me so I could understand them better, and maybe it'd be good to be able to do that the other way around. Forcibly controlling someone's mind, though? No.

Even if you wanted to use it with good purposes (trying to ease someone's mind, for example, or to change someone to be better to those around them), it can become very easily abusable and it slips into the question if such power should be granted to anyone. Absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely, after all, and there's no more absolute a power than being able to control someone's mind. People's stances on morality or what is considered a good state of mind also vary enough that there's no way to guarantee anyone with that power, such as myself, wouldn't just be forcing their own moral stance onto other people.

I could see maybe it being therapeutic and beneficial in the case that it is consented to by the party that is being controlled, with very clear terms and boundaries expressed. Maybe it could be used to calm someone down from a panic attack, or something like that. Any other use case, and it simply slips too uncomfortably close to dangerous, controlling territory, and there are enough people who exhibit controlling behaviors without literal mind control as another tool in their toolbox.
 
Of course I would, I don't care if it's morally correct, lemme brainwash someone into giving me a job where I still have to do something but I end up getting paid more than what that job would normally pay (not talking something crazy like 'collecting the shopping carts at the grocery store and I get paid $1 million per year for it' but something more 'making $50k per year regardless of the level of work I brainwash someone into giving me')
 
i will not stand for this injustice against Patrick Star
 
Anyways I picked "Yes but only mildly" because it would probably be the best option if I actually wanted to change someone's mind without raising suspicion that I am doing it.

In this case tho, what does "mildly" mean? Like influencing their general emotions and thoughts but no specific thoughts or a hypnosis thing where you persuade someone by lowering their ability to resist your demands or some third not-weird-and/or-creepy-thing I'm overlooking?
 
Borodo Obsessor said:
Anyways I picked "Yes but only mildly" because it would probably be the best option if I actually wanted to change someone's mind without raising suspicion that I am doing it.

In this case tho, what does "mildly" mean? Like influencing their general emotions and thoughts but no specific thoughts or a hypnosis thing where you persuade someone by lowering their ability to resist your demands or some third not-weird-and/or-creepy-thing I'm overlooking?
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Those first two describe it pretty well.