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Date Posted: 20:25:59 03/15/02 Fri
Author: Islandgirl
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"Nice" monsters

This is a more open-ended question that a real trivia thing with right and wrong answers, but here goes: how many times did Mulder and Scully come across people (or mutuants or monsters or whatever term you want to use) who *did* have some sort of weird power or physical attributes, but used them to benefit humanity rather than harm it??
I can think of a couple: Clyde Bruckerman used his abilty to foretell the time and manner of people's death to convince people who were really going to need life insurance to buy it. (One wonders, actually, how his company stayed in business if they only sold policies to people who were about to croak? The economic essence of insurance is you have to sell more policies to people who *won't* need it, than people who will.)And the Rain King guy (the weatherman; gone blank on his name) never *deliberately* tried to harm anyone with his telekinetic power over the weather; he didn't seem to have much control over his abilities, but he felt really bad when he thought his heart-shaped hail had cause his romantic rival to be seriously injured in an automobile accident and he seemed to subconsciously try to "atone" for his actions by bring rain to drought-stricken regions.
This brings up a corollary question. Why did it seem that having telepathic/telekinetic/whatever powers seemed, about 98 percent of the time, to make the people who had them want to wreak havoc on the rest of humanity?? Why *didn't* more mutants use their powers for good instead of evil??
(Okay, maybe the answer to this is: we don't know that they weren't, but nobody would be likely to call in the FBI to investigate random acts of paranormal kindness.)

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Re: "Nice" monsters -- Melissa, 18:26:42 03/17/02 Sun