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The Perfect Weapon.

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Astera Zandraki
Out of Focus
Odin's Call
#1 - 2015-03-22 16:24:41 UTC
Capsuleers,

If I may have a moment of your time to indulge my curiosity, I have a question for you.

If you possessed a perfect weapon, that is, a weapon that could kill, maim or incapacitate any number of people with utter exactitude, without any risk of collateral damage. what would you use it for?

Utari Onzo
Escalated.
OnlyFleets.
#2 - 2015-03-22 16:31:53 UTC
Astera Zandraki wrote:
Capsuleers,

If I may have a moment of your time to indulge my curiosity, I have a question for you.

If you possessed a perfect weapon, that is, a weapon that could kill, maim or incapacitate any number of people with utter exactitude, without any risk of collateral damage. what would you use it for?



Use it to destroy itself so no one else may possess a weapon of this magnitude. Only God should be allowed to wield perfect power and the risk of such a thing getting in to the wrong hands would be too great.

"Face the enemy as a solid wall For faith is your armor And through it, the enemy will find no breach Wrap your arms around the enemy For faith is your fire And with it, burn away his evil"
Deitra Vess
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#3 - 2015-03-22 17:10:23 UTC
I would keep it ready to go at a moments notice but never use it unless it was absolutely necessary, which probably wouldn't take too long to happen...
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#4 - 2015-03-22 17:28:43 UTC
Astera Zandraki wrote:
If you possessed a perfect weapon, that is, a weapon that could kill, maim or incapacitate any number of people with utter exactitude, without any risk of collateral damage. what would you use it for?

I wouldn't.

... that's what I'd like to say. I don't really know.
Aldrith Shutaq
Atash e Sarum Vanguard
#5 - 2015-03-22 18:07:48 UTC
The only appropriate use would be to police those who would do evil. Of course, defining evil and the conditions under which said weapon would be used is another matter.

Aldrith Ter'neth Shutaq Newelle

Fleet Captain of the Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris

Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Lord Consort of Lady Mitara Newelle, Champion of House Sarum and Holder of Damnidios Para'nashu
Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
#6 - 2015-03-22 18:16:11 UTC
Astera Zandraki wrote:
Capsuleers,

If I may have a moment of your time to indulge my curiosity, I have a question for you.

If you possessed a perfect weapon, that is, a weapon that could kill, maim or incapacitate any number of people with utter exactitude, without any risk of collateral damage. what would you use it for?



The complete and total extermination of the Minmatar people (give or take a tiny number who have renounced their Minmatarness and joined the true faith).
Lyn Farel
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#7 - 2015-03-22 18:18:37 UTC
I would break it up into pieces to understand how it works.
Sinjin Mokk
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2015-03-22 18:36:28 UTC
The appropriate answer is, "God's Will."


Yes, that is a worrisome answer.


"Angels live, they never die, Apart from us, behind the sky. They're fading souls who've turned to ice, So ashen white in paradise."
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#9 - 2015-03-22 19:42:42 UTC
Why is this morally difficult? All of you use weapons that work on this scale but imprecisely already - it would only be a difficult question if the weapon was effective, cheap, potent but utterly indiscriminate.

All of us have lists of people who shouldn't be alive. I do. I'd use this weapon to remove them in a heartbeat.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Miyamoto Takedi
Perkone
Caldari State
#10 - 2015-03-22 20:49:01 UTC
A weapon is only as infallible as it's user.
I would store such a device securely, from your description, it would like be best saved as a last resort.

Though I will admit, the temptation would be there to simply permanently remove any annoyance or threat once and for all.

If such a weapon truly existed though, there are certainly those who I would hate to see gain use of one.
TomHorn
Horn Brothers Holdings Inc.
#11 - 2015-03-22 20:58:00 UTC
All Gallente citizens that remain on Caldari Prime, finally end the occupation. I do not believe we will ever have our homeworld returned any other way.
Tyrel Toov
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#12 - 2015-03-22 22:44:41 UTC
Use it to kill Nauplius and his clones, then secure it until I need it again.

I want to paint my ship Periwinkle.
Christine Peeveepeeski
Low Sec Concepts
#13 - 2015-03-22 23:47:38 UTC
Can this weapon travel through time? If so I'd kill anyone that ever came up with creating us as immortals. I'd then sit back and laugh at how the universe deals with the causality issues such an act would create.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2015-03-23 01:35:45 UTC
Lyn Farel wrote:
I would break it up into pieces to understand how it works.


What a coincidence! That's also my plan!

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Foley Aberas Jones
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#15 - 2015-03-23 04:25:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Foley Aberas Jones
Astera Zandraki wrote:
what would you use it for?




To kill that **** who cutted in front of me during the ******* Super Mega-rib sammich special today
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NEVER **** with a man trying to get a Rib sammich
Evie Vecodie
Drone Welfare Association
#16 - 2015-03-23 06:27:18 UTC
I would stop anyone who tries to do harm to the drones.
epicurus ataraxia
Illusion of Solitude.
Illusion of Solitude
#17 - 2015-03-23 12:36:23 UTC
Astera Zandraki wrote:
Capsuleers,

If I may have a moment of your time to indulge my curiosity, I have a question for you.

If you possessed a perfect weapon, that is, a weapon that could kill, maim or incapacitate any number of people with utter exactitude, without any risk of collateral damage. what would you use it for?



I have a little list, of those who won't be missed.............

There is one EvE. Many people. Many lifestyles. WE are EvE
Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Doomheim
#18 - 2015-03-23 12:48:54 UTC
If one cannot stomach the casualties of "collateral damage" then don't resort to violence in the first place. Fanciful and wishful thinking to desire only killing the people you want to kill without harming others so that the burdens of conscience can be rationalized and justified away in the pursuit of "humanitarian" weapons systems.

Kurilaivonen|Concern
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#19 - 2015-03-23 13:15:56 UTC
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Why is this morally difficult? All of you use weapons that work on this scale but imprecisely already - it would only be a difficult question if the weapon was effective, cheap, potent but utterly indiscriminate.

All of us have lists of people who shouldn't be alive. I do. I'd use this weapon to remove them in a heartbeat.

Only, we don't have weapons like this, Mr. Tuulinen.

She placed no limits on effective range or maximum numbers targeted. It could annihilate a head of state, the head of state's political supporters (if identified), an entire nation, or all humans everywhere with equal ease.

It's a god from a machine, and you're the god.

None of us are qualified for power like that.
Iwan Terpalen
Doomheim
#20 - 2015-03-23 13:36:46 UTC
The qualification question is somewhat relative. Most of us aren't qualified for safety scissors. It's never stopped anyone before.
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