Shape-shifting is more useful than teleportation

The entire case of Pro assumes far too much and relies on far too little. Firstly it assumes that you are a shape-shifter in a world where no one else is (or no one else has powers), secondly it assumes that usefulness is always to the self rather than to others. Aside from this, it relies on the notion that more power is inherently more useful. this is the foundation of Pro's entire argument. Stemming from those assumptions and foundation, more false assumptions and foundations can be found. The entire battle arena theory is so irrelevant to this debate. What is more useful; the ability to avoid any and all conflict by immediate fleeing or the ability to tear someone to shreds and have to live with that guilt? Assuming you are a psychopath and this doesn't matter, there comes the further question which will inevitably leave you with less enemies (as clearly having enemies is not useful but avoiding making them is indeed). It gets even more funny when Pro says that you can turn into a bird and fly away or a bug and run away. Good luck getting stomped on as a bug!The fact is that the most mathematically useful way to leave the fight unscathed and without enemies is to flee until they either calm down or die trying. Fleeing is done fastest by teleportation, there is no physical alternative that is possibly more energy and time efficient. As for the notion that turning into a fast creature could ever equate to the usefulness of instantaneously appearing at the destination in an infinitesimally small amount of time with no physical energy tiring you out by doing so, this debate is about usefulness not sexiness. You don't need to make their ride look, or feel good, it just has to be the most useful of all alternatives to achieve the task it is designed to and teleportation hands down is the best travel mechanism possible by both standards of efficiency and inability to be harmed along the way. Next, Pro states how one could shape-shift into a body capable of teleportation. Assuming this is true, Pro essentially has turned the user of shape-shifting into an omnipotent God-like entity. Usefulness is only relevant to an object, or situation where an entity of finite capabilities is trying to conserve its energy in the most efficient way possible to achieve its goal. Thus, if you let shape-shifters turn into any form capable of any power, they cannot find any usefulness in the power as now they have no limited resource which they wish to conserve. They can become immortal,invincible and omniscient al at once. Such a capable entity has no capacity to find usefulness in a power since they are incapable of needing to find anything useful or achieve any goals. Goals are set by entities that need to achieve them in order to achieve something that they could not achieve otherwise in a more efficient way. In other words, if the shape shifter wants to feel something, they merely need to turn into an entity capable of flipping their sensations an demotions like a switch, but the moment they do so, they have admitted that they need to feel in the first place and contradicted the very notion of their omnipotence. Thus, it follows that the moment a shape-shifter would even use a single power or have any concept of usefulness, they have immediately contradicted the very fact that they are omnipotent to begin with. Now let's imagine a world where everybody teleports. This would reduce global warming as there'd be far less vehicles polluting the atmosphere, it would also increase our species' efficiency immensely as people could attend work and back in record time, with even more energy able to be used at work as the tiresome activity of traveling to and form (and the hours of the day wasted on doing so instead of sleeping or something else) would be abolished. Now let's imagine a world where everybody Shape-shifts. First of all this is impossible to imagine, as the moment you imagine any form you contradicted their power. Secondly. this world would essentially become a 4 Chan[1]-esque society whereby everyone is totally and utterly anonymous. Actually, unlike with 4 Chan, there's be no moderators or Admins because everyone would be one. they merely have to shape-shift into a time-traveling, history altering entity and alter the entire history of the reality to be different to what it was intended to be by the others. In actual fact the first to destroy the others by shape-shifting into an annihilation machine would be the 'winner' according to Pro's definition of the motive of all humans (the battle arena) and the breadth of extra abilities that shape-shifting would allow (even teleportation). The real irony of Pro's case is that it ignores the need of an entity to have limits, it ignores the concept of identity and doesn't understand how useful it is that we can't alter out identity at will. There'd be no motivation to compete against other corporations in order to produce high quality products as the moment you beat them, they'd shape-shift into you and kill you with their powers. If only you were shape-shifting, there'd still be not motivation as you'd constantly crave to be something different, just because you can. there'd be absolutely nothing fulfilling about you (whoever the present 'you' is) at all. the fact is that there is no perfect name, no perfect look and no perfect power to have. You'd constantly be self-loathing and in an unstoppable, incoherent state of angst whereby you'd always want to improve yourself and be too capable to do so that you'd never stop altering until you sit down and cry because you realize that perfect form is something impossible to achieve whereas perfect efficiency of transporting your body from one place to another is (teleportation). The final point is that if you ended up coming up against someone who was either working with, or him/herself capable of 'canceling out powers' such as "The Haitian"[2] in the series Heroes, you would be fare more capable of recovering form an inability to teleport alone and fight being powerless than you would if you were recovering from the omnipotent extent of shape-shifting that Pro described it to be. I conclude that shape-shifting is not more useful than teleportation and that Pro has not met their burden of proof thus far. Sources: [1] http://www.independent.co.uk... [2] http://heroeswiki.com...