For example:

  • You can fly but you can never stop flying
  • You can turn invisible, but never be seen again
  • @BlueSquid0741
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    This is pretty simple though right?

    Healing factor - always-on healing.

    • Ada
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      Healing factor - always-on healing.

      Don’t we already have that?

      • Not for everything and not good enough though.

        Especially for something as complex as mental illnesses/trauma your body has hardly any ability to heal by itself.

        Though then we can get pedantic: How long should you feel down when someone you love died? Because I don’t consider it a bad thing for something like this to take a while before healing. It’d suck to attend their funeral having completely healed already.

      • @deranger@sh.itjust.works
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        915 hours ago

        Sometimes the always on healing works so good cells start doing things like reactivating telomerase and ignoring the signals for programmed cell death and become cancer, sometimes turning effectively immortal.

      • @chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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        What if there’s an earthquake and you get stuck under a mountain of rubble? Could take months for you to get out of there. How about a skiing accident involving an avalanche? Could take even longer When you are completely immortal, you suddenly start to view certain risks in a very different way.

        • @brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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          How crazy of a healing factor are we talking about. Broken bones healed in a day? Or healing from a gunshot to the brain?

          Having a healing power that would let me lose an arm or a lung and regrow it would be awesome. But regrowing a brain would be problematic.

          Does healing include not aging? Or the tearing and rebuilding of muscles? It would be wild to have a healing factor that allows you to essentially body build in a single day.