Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25615397-20160301032615/@comment-5265497-20180323175607

"So a divine, nigh-omnipotent being [...] wants to see what would happen if it gave every member of an entire sentient species"

You realize how ambiguous that is right? It wants to see what would happen. That doesn't mean that there is no chance of benevolence? For example, whose to say it couldn't be experimenting to see if we would do good with the powers. To see HOW MUCH good we would do with them. You are impressing a cynical human perspectives on the cosmic being because that's the only way you can seem to rationalize it.

Everything is not nurtured before the skills are taught or abilities given. Sometimes it can be natural or quickly learned. There is a possibility where it believes we are at a stage where we are mature enough to handle these powers. Maybe in its culture, it believes we are at a turning point where we should be able to handle it. Maybe that's how it got its power. All and all, you're making assumptions based on your human nature, but the tendency to rationalize everything on such a base is only natural. Also selfish greed? Last time I checked, it's providing us with powers. The only thing it gets out of it is data (we don't even know if its entertainment). But have you ever thought that maybe this is also a MORAL test rather than a strictly survival test?

"The Galaxy Manipulation point is ridiculous and you know it. If it was used, it was mistakenly so."

It is ridiculous, but it follows the rules. Just like how broken your enhanced replication is in this environment (which is exactly why if it was a true survival experiment, it wouldn't be used in the first place), it follows the rules. That's all that matters. We don't know the purpose or the reasoning for the experiment beyond "he wants to see what happens" so who is to say it isn't expecting somebody to get it. Maybe he wants to see what somebody would do with full control of a galaxy.

"Inequalities are inevitable." So you have problems with an ability that puts people on equal footing and nothing against a powerset that instantly makes you stronger by enhancing the abilities you copied. Yes, the whole game is rigged towards unfairness so my solution was to make it completely fair. The only reason you don't like it is because it would prevent You from gaining powers from it. You would be just like everybody else.

"Well, if we truly don't know then your take isn't any more valid than mine, is it ?" So we cannot make the assumption that the being would take away my powers because it doesn't fit the test ... that we know nothing about.