[ SECRET POST #2748 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2748 ⌋

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Notes:

Early because ... World Cup! No other excuse.

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Comments

[cushlamochree]

Telepaths bring up different moral concerns than other kinds of mutants, I think. There's a whole batch of privacy and rights issues that apply to telepathy that don't apply to the ability to blow things up. It's a reasonable desire to not have people look in your head. That doesn't make you an asshole. There wouldn't be anything just about a policy requiring people to let mutants look at their thoughts.

And the other problem is that telepathy is hidden. If somebody lights someone else on fire, you can tell what's going on. Even if Mystique is impersonating someone, there's at least things you can do to figure it out. It's harder with telepaths because you literally can't really know whether they're reading your thoughts, so of course you're going to be a little more on your guard against it.

[esteefee]

I would think, though, that there must be some way to detect telepathic waves scientifically. People could start to buy telepathy detectors, or I'm sure there's an app for that already. ;)

The thing is, there are extraordinarily sensitive sound detection devices in existence today and in use. There are cameras everywhere. Our privacy is a thing of the past. Yet people do not act as if they don't have privacy. You can't detect if a boom mic is trained on you (not you, cushlamochree, but generalized you), or if someone is using a line tap.

I think there would be the usual hue and cry over telepaths that there is in the U.S. about the CIA, but hey, privacy? What privacy? And how many telepaths are there floating around, really, versus real surveillance?

And why do you think a telepath would be interested in *your* thoughts, exactly? Again, not you, cushlamochree, but thanks for getting me thinky.

[(Anonymous)]

Are people completely unaware of their minds being read? In the first movie Magneto, during his introduction scene after Jean makes her speech at the beginning, says something along the lines of "I can feel you sneaking around in here, what are you looking for?" as he taps his temple.

Maybe the problem of telepaths could be slightly alleviated by having other people train to know when their minds are being read? Then it would be a more reportable and therefore controllable interaction/offense.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually Magneto -asks- him, "Are you sneaking around in there?" He isn't sure, and he has known Charles his entire life. I doubt that someone who has not had decades of experience with a telepath would be aware if one was reading his mind. Otherwise Charles would have given himself away since he was a child, if people immediately knew that he could read their minds.