>>88258615Because if you became a policeman, a firefighter or a soldier, you are an employee of the state, which means you are also govt property.
Which means you local govt can legally sedate, abduct and experiment on you to replicate your powers, find your weakness, clone you, or dismember your abilities.
Another issue.
Let's say you got all the powers of Superman. Let's say you're also a good guy beforehand, so the obvious choice is to become a superhero and help the innocent in ways no one else can. So you take care of Islamic State., stop or kill off all the African warlords and their armies, and save an entire city of people from a flood, and get paid by the White House or the UN. Awesome, right?
That's how it starts. They keep making you do save-the-day stuff that makes you feel good and make people love you. Then, the politicians decide to make you their game-breaking hit man, fight their oil-driven wars single-handedly, push Native Americans or Amazonians out of their land for a valuable resource, slaughter an entire African village because the airborne bioweapon the CIA created is too potent, or, hell, kill the dictator of any country who isn't willing to lower their nuke count. If you don't like it; well, that's okay, buddy! We'll just kill your friends, family and your neighbors! See what your selfish attitude is getting you? Now, chin up and drop this captured North Korean nuke on Moscow so NK and Russia can kill each other in a nuclear holocaust!
Would you still want to become a superhero cop?
