Quote:
Originally Posted by tshiggins
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.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ber_of_victims
And that's just the ones we know about. Once one of them realized what was happening, it would get a lot worse. Then there's people like this fellow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
A religious leader who got 900+ of his followers to commit suicide and/or kill off the other followers depending on which version of whose story you believe. Nine hundred people at five points each is almost five thousand points - given to a man who could do this much damage in the real world. In this parallel people *want* to believe him so much they would flock to him by the thousands even knowing what is happening. Any sniper who draws a bead on him falls under his spell.
Sure the FBI would try and stop the plague of serial killers. America might survive more or less intact for a while. If the plague started in the 1940s much of the Third World would be overrun by insane unstoppable God-Kings at best.
1950s America had the Red Scare. 1920s America had Prohibition and gangsters fighting over territory. Try to imagine either when law enforcement has to fight bloodthirsty Ubermensch among the target group. The federal law enforcement agencies would try and stop the plague but ultimately would fail because there would be just too damn many of them to stop. Eventually even the First World nations would collapse under the strain.
Best case scenario you end up with America being a police state on a level we can barely imagine. But even then they would find it hard to stop the thousand plus point guy who wants to burn down entire cities for fun.