The Destructive Cost of Superpowers in Real Society

Can We Acknowledge Some Good Things First?

We’re all aware of the good that superpowers can bring to our current living situations. A technopath(someone who can mentally control machinery and/or create new electronics at will) for a computer technician — maybe a bunch of telepathic psychologists who can pinpoint every vulnerability within the brain?

All in all, it’s safe to say that with the rise of powers, there’s a large amount of jobs that would become available to people of almost any power variety. Many new occupations would be available as well, ones that wouldn’t come across our unpowered minds as necessity.

However, this may include power based slavery for those who aren’t very powerful-which is obviously far from acceptable, but as many countries have proven, is more than likely.

Now Allow Yourself to Think Drastically

In the year of 2020, it’d be pretty hard to ignore that citizens of the same countries do not get along with one another due to the divides between human rights and those who prefer to give rights to government powers(which they already have). In other words, debates on guns would be floored, as superpowers would take hold as the primary source of weapons and defensive measures for all who gain them.

Now, most times, North America avoids civil wars by lulling parties and-or policing the rights and passions of citizens to fight for what they think is right.

Many protests have proven in this time, that fights would be inevitable across political parties. There’d be no more white supremacists with guns yelling at police, they’d be fighting.

And with that, comes the inevitable end of the consistent amounts of favoritism shown towards police and Caucasian citizens.

Considering these powers are new, it’s very unlikely that there would be a way for government powers to handle them.

In fact, it’d be more unlikely for the high-end Democrats and Republicans to remain civil with each other on a professional level.

Racism will develop a new subcategory of power based discrimination and (more than not) xenophobia depending on which country develops the most diversity amongst different powersets.

Superpowers would be a stalemating addition to almost any war, but just like guns, they’d be extremely hard to regulate long before it’d be realistically possible for the U.S and various other countries to counteract.

The debate of whether or not powers to the masses could be a good thing is essentially useless. Things like guns and bladed weapons allow many people to see the currency of power that certain classes have over others. Superpowers would be the cause of a much flashier and cinematic gun fight, but without the restrictions that many people would have against getting a licensed weapon.

What's The Battlefield Like?

The belief that powers will be relegated amongst citizens of the US(or around the world) is one that is extremely unbelievable, especially since the amount of guns in the world can’t even be estimated, let alone tracked to each individual. If a city has a bunch of people who can be invisible or a group of pyromancers, distinguishing crimes on the basis of capability would be extremely impossible. For one, more specific power groups would be on high alert based on the amount of fatalities or severe crimes committed with said superpower. If you’re a cryomancer and cryomancers are known for freezing people at night, you’ll most likely be a suspect - especially if powers are new to the world.

Now we are in the territory of police brutality and false incrimination. Police are a hot topic in the states right now, and for Black people(of almost every diaspora) and people of color, police are a household fear and/or shared hatred. This means that the rivalry between police and people of color would rise to levels beyond guns, but war. Additionally, openly LGBTQIA+ and disabled people may experience fractions of the aggressions exuded by police officers as well.

You might be thinking, “what the Hell does this have to do with the average citizens?”

I am writing this at the time of October 9th, 2020, a time where citizens of North America have literally fought over the protection or incrimination of police officers. There’s no denying a superpowered civil war. I’m not here to tell you the victor. Although I am VERY left-wing, the factors of that battle would be up to circumstance, territory, and too many factors to make this article as concise as I want it to be.

Long story short, the government will be overrun by absolute war, and that much, is all that I can speculate. Depending on the popularity of this article, I may create a more in-depth dive of the simulated civil war and break it down into relevant factors. Until then, farewell!