Having an ability that the people around you don't have can turn the people around you against you. This can be seen from several psychological experiments that have shown this to be true. The most prominent of which would probably be the Stanford Prison Experiment in which college students were split into two groups. Prison Guards and Prisoners. Given the distinction between the two, the prisoners started to act out against the prison guards and the prison guards used their power to do disgusting and cruel things to the prisoners. Even though there weren't any actual differences between the two groups other than that they had been split at the beginning of the experiment, they were treated as outcasts.
I would like to link this idea to the idea from my last blog post. Superheroes in the movies also start to be treated as outcasts and this happens in a slightly different way in real life. Let me explain. People do not like people who they view as different from themselves. With enough time people will gather together to bring the people different than them down. In real life, people will not do this unless they believe that the differences make them inferior. This still happens and has largely been predicted.
The Stanford Prison Experiment differs from the type of discrimination I just talked about in two ways. The first of which is that the prison guards thought that the prisoners had done something terrible. And there were not any actual differences between the two besides the distinction given at the beginning of the experiment. When applying this to someone who has superhuman abilities, instead of being motivated to discriminate by thinking of it as punishment, they are motivated by fear. They fear the increased abilities that the person has.
In my last blog post, I said that the biggest superpower that a person has is the power of prayer and their faith in God. Well, this same principle ties in here, but again is not exactly the same. In the Bible, Jesus said in John 15:18, "'If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.'" The world is going to hate Christians and I have talked about this in past blog posts, but it is not because of fear. At least not in the same way, because they don't believe in the power of prayer and so they don't view Christians as having any superpower, but it is still there. Jesus knew this when he said "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first." in John 15:18.
In my last blog post, I also mentioned that education and knowledge is a superweapon. I saw a quote that makes this more clear than ever. Jordan Peterson said "In the west, the Bible is the precondition of truth." Education in the west is based on learning the truth and dealing with truth. means that know God and the power of prayer go hand in hand with the power of knowledge. Education and knowledge has now power without God as the Bible is the Word of God and the Bible is the basis of knowledge. Without God, there would not be a Bible, and without the Bible, there is not any basis for knowledge. God is needed to be able to understand and interpret the truth since the Bible is needed to define what is true and what is false.