On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:56:50PM +0100, Bruce Ferrie wrote:
> I'd probably just rule that any normal person's Run Fast or whatever just
> wasn't a suitable ability for a direct contest against, say a car or a
> motorbike. In the same vein, no matter how Strong someone got, I wouldn't let
> him pick up a tank.
>
> For superheroes and suchlike, all bets are off.
In one sense, this comes down to the old "scale" issue -- do motorbikes
have a "Fast" number that one can meaningfully compare to a human's?
(And in another, it comes down to the equally old chestnut of whether
some abilities are qualitatively different from others (e.g. magic, etc).)
Cheers,
Alex.