Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

balderdash@lemmy.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 248 points –

Pretty much the title. I've been watching more realistic super hero shows like The Boys and Invincible. The reoccurring themes is that with great power comes great immorality.

I think it's easy for us normies to respect other people and their property because there are clear consequences for violating social norms. But what would the average person do if they had super powers?

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Dude. they ain't morals if the only thing stopping me is consequence

So you're a consequentialist, then. That's just one short step to utilitarianism, which is a pretty solid moral foundation.

Ehhhh, Consequentialism judges the morality of an action by its consequence. I'm simply not stealing shit because the inconvenience of hassle.