I can see how you'd come to that conclusion, sure. I personally feel that it's a false equivalence here, but YMMV.
Actually, it's literally called the "coolest superpower for the real world". :PAs for why I’m applying real world stuff to super powers ... well isn’t that the point of the thread? The title is literally called “the best super power to have [B]in real life[B]. Which is why I feel most powers would just be worthless at best or a burden at worst because a lot of them lose any appeal when you fully consider what it’d be like to have those powers in the world we live in today. I don’t understand what’s so confusing about that?
But no, the point is to apply super powers in the context of real world scenarios to see which one you feel has the most utility/which one you prefer, using things like basic logic and pretend rules (the same kind of stuff you use to debate fictional battles). The point is not to apply real life science to it, because then the superpowers just fall apart in a million ways that don't even have anything to do with control.
Not to take anything away from what you just said, but what you've described is literally a case of you deciding who lives and who dies, for any given sample of dying people that you have access to (if both spacial and temporal criteria are met).
But yes, I agree that the whole deal about feeling like you're responsible for people dying because you chose to save other people instead reeks of the stuff like the Trolley Dilemma (complex from a cognitive perspective, but you're not going to lose sleep over it) or the silly attempts that video games these days make to try to make you feel like there's some meaningful binary choice you can make.
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Do you anticipate having to defend yourself in a life-or-death situation sufficient amount of times in life, so that some lesser-destructive but still incredibly useful power (that might still be fairly handy in a life-or-death situation) wouldn't be a better choice?
If you do, then I would not want to live where you live. O_o
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
To be fair, if there's even a small (as opposed to insignificant) risk of it happening to you due to where/how you live or work it's probably worth picking up something with the capability of guaranteeing survival in the face of life and death situations. Even if it only comes into play once every 5 years, it'd be worth it.
That said, I was thinking of superstrength as something that would help you make things less physically taxing on yourself and easily perform activities that you normally need the help of tools or people for.
If you need to survive life and death situations, there's far better stuff.
All you got to do is grapple them, but baring real strength and maybe they will chill the hell down.
Now if you literally falcon punch the attacker, that’s deliberate killing to point. Or like using a hell of a improv weapon as well.
Because having super strength helps depending on siruation. But so that murder does not happen, treat everything like cars board or a egg.
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate