Today I was watching "Star Wars" and I found myself asking "if the Force was real, what would I use it for?" I came up with a few ideas for this (99% of them involved me screwing with people), but I think it might be entertaining to see some of your ideas too! So let's hear them. If "The Force" was real and you were the only person in the world who could use it, what would you do with it?
As much as I would like to say "I'd use it to help people and make the world a better place," I know that I would end up using it to trick people for my own amusement (picture me trying to convince people that their houses are haunted by making tables fly through the air and all that jazz ). What about you?
As with just about any super power, I would more than likely use it for personal gain. Sad, but true. Though it would be for other reasons than "power corrupts."
edit: My number one use would undoubtedly be for road rage. Scoot slow cars out of the way, and turn poorly parked cars into cubes of junk. Eventually I'd get more imaginative, though. Why commute to work when I have the Force?
Honestly, if I could use "The Force" I would probably just become suuuuper lazy. Like, float myself the TV remote/controller/diet coke from the fridge type of thing.
I might mess with people some too, but only people I really can't stand. If I messed with the people I care about too much, they would probably get really tired of it really fast.
If the force was real, and I had complete mastery over it, I would hide it.
I wouldn't want anyone else to discover this power because I know how corrupt people may become if they could obtain such powers. Governments would try to commit experiments on me, and I would no doubt become a fugitive on the run.
I wouldn't even think of using it the way you want to use. Eventually from thoughts like that I would, and possibly anyone with this power, turn evil. Silly pranks would turn into fits of anger. A sort of superiority complex would develop from messing with people long enough.
You ever watch "Chronicles?" Sooner or later some evil of that caliber would manifest itself in me if I continued down the path of simple parlor tricks to earn a cheap laugh.
Lol, yeah that dude was crazy cool. You know what's funny, their version of the Force is kind of like the Star Wars version. They can even sense each other in the after life, which I thought was really cool. Sucks the black guy had to die though. But I couldn't help but see that coming. He was probably the best candidate for controlling the force.
Are midichlorians the source of it too or can we assume they don't exist like every other fan?
Aww, screw it. I'm becoming a Sith Lord anyway. But when I say I'm going to become a Sith Lord, I mean I'm going to hash out the Sith's philosophy so it's a real thing with legitimacy instead of the cartoony chaotic evil crap George Lucas farted out.
I'll be honest further. I'm going to abuse the hell out of this. Mind tricks, telekinesis, precognition, force jumps. My student loans and further bills would get paid off much sooner and easier than I had anticipated.
Oh, well I would use my powers to become part of an elite fighting force designed to take down the Governments of the World and take over as Emperor of Earth (see great title). Nah I would probably just use it to get free food, and work as a magician. Everybody would be so confused about how I did my tricks and I would be really famous.
I get the feeling that you wouldn't be able to do anything freely given a power like this. Best case scenario, you're forcefully recruited by the government and agree to work as some sort of Jedi CIA agent. Worst case scenario, they don't even offer, or you refuse, and are constantly hunted because you're marked a danger to national security or something like that.