[Poll] Would you join the borg willingly?

posted on November 24th, 2010, 8:16 am

So exactly as it says in the title.

Would join/be assimilated by the borg willingly? its theoretical question assuming the borg are real.

posted on November 24th, 2010, 8:17 am

obviously i voted yes 

posted on November 24th, 2010, 8:56 am

the poll options are rubbish, no middle ground lol

I might join them if i was dying and needed medical stuff that we dont have.

posted on November 24th, 2010, 9:14 am

if i could go back and change the poll options i would, but it doesn't seem you can. Dom if you listening add some middle ground to the poll for me pretty plz (insert flowers here)

posted on November 24th, 2010, 10:14 am

No.

Becasue

this turns into




this

posted on November 24th, 2010, 11:48 am

wow im the only one. come on there must be someone else

posted on November 24th, 2010, 1:21 pm

I voted no, the whole 'slave in your own body' thing isn't a comforting thought.

posted on November 24th, 2010, 3:03 pm

if i could go back and change the poll options i would, but it doesn't seem you can. Dom if you listening add some middle ground to the poll for me pretty plz (insert flowers here)

Unfortunately I cannot - Zebh and I only have poll altering privileges within the guide's subforum 

Sharing the knowledge of trillions... tempting... tempting - but only the TNG reality, not that Voyager style Borg 

posted on November 24th, 2010, 3:49 pm

No sadistic fun to be had if I can't feel any emotion due to individuality constraints. Having a purpose and being a minion for a large force are fine by me tho. Kind of a hard question to answer, especially with a yes or no option (a concept that also comes with very bad consequences in more important situations, I'd recommend getting in the habit of making at least three options.)

posted on November 24th, 2010, 11:42 pm

The death of self is a far worse fate than mere physical death.  To have some tiny fragment of your mind locked away, unable to interact or affect what the rest of you is doing, screaming it's abasement...

No, death first.  And I'd take as many of them with me as I could.

posted on November 25th, 2010, 4:49 am

sure ud lose your individuality but you would be part of a hive mind, you would be able to experience everything that every other drone experiences. also perhaps one does maintain part of ones individuality in the hive mind.

come on, am i really the only person

posted on November 25th, 2010, 12:24 pm

You wouldn't experience anything.  That thing known as you would no longer exist.

That's why the greeting is 'We are Borg', not 'I am 19 of 200, quaternary sub-processor of unimatrix 283'.

All your memories would be analysed, and then all memories that the Collective felt were useless would be sealed off.  The rest, everyone would have...things like math and science information.

Not pleasant, not fun, but at least you wouldn't really be too aware of that, being just an extension of the Collective.

posted on November 25th, 2010, 1:31 pm

Hmm, 'tis a difficult choice. Amen to what Dom said. Not Nerf of Borg from Voyager, but TNG Borg... maybe maybe. Also as Dom said, knowledge of, well, most likley googols (try and Google that ) of people. But still, no free will, no choice, no nothing...



Borg Collective =



But either way, the Borg are awesome 

posted on November 25th, 2010, 3:15 pm

No.

Because

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this

Best argument ever 

posted on November 25th, 2010, 3:50 pm

Hold in mind, that if you go into a collective of humans... well, you know what happends if a mass is thinking the dame thinmg, right? The result would be stupid bullshit like creationism combined with fast food-technology with maganing directors, that manages the management of a menegement that is doing management for management... and so on. I think, a cube full of humans will blow itself up before it could even initiate the impulse engines. OR the stupid mind will be eradicated by logic and then 80% of all drones will be put into space, because they are not able to think in logical ways.

It would be a huge selection followed by a small group of humans in a mind. THAT could work.