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Originally Posted by Jasonft
Actually, the world would fall apart quite thoroughly if you added a small caveat to the basic rule of said parallel.
What if for every 20 CP gained by murdering other humans you had to take one point of Mental Disadvantages that CANNOT ever be bought off? This way your 1000 CP ninja with all stats of 18/ Weapon Master/ etc also has terminal fear of spiders and uncontrollable Pyromania?
Multiply this by six billion people at the start and then let the effect run for twenty plus years. To say that the world would be a complete mess would be an understatement.
[Edit: The more kills you make the more Paranoid someone is out to kill YOU would be pretty common.]
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Even that wouldn't destabilize society, much. The minute somebody starts to kill people in order to gain power, they become "serial killers." Serial killers tend to come to the attention of law-enforcement, pretty quickly, and the more frequently they kill, the more quickly they get caught.
Even the most successful serial murderers seldom kill more than a dozen or two people, across the span of many years, and their victims are usually weaker and more helpless than them.
They victimize children, or women alone with no family around, or other isolated individuals. They don't go after multi-millionaires, or elite soldiers, or people constantly in contact with those who love them and would miss them.
In other words, they don't go after high-point individuals, and the more they kill, the more clearly they establish their patterns. That gives the FBI (or whatever other agency is responsible for catching them) more of the information needed to track them down.
Throw in the fact that power would likely make unstable individuals even more unstable, and there's a pretty hard upper limit to how bad they could get before some FBI sniper blew their brains out, from 500 meters away.
Now, once the governments figured out this was happening, they'd likely try to take advantage of it, but even then you don't wind up with an inherently unstable situation. You just wind up with governments that cultivate double-O agents, and those men and women would tend to
support the status quo, and not threaten it.
Of course, that comes with its own set of problems. Such individuals could wind up as Edward Morgan Blake as easily as they could James Bond -- but even that doesn't result in a crap-sack Lucifer parallel.