Not saying they're worse than others. Just that they have a "power" personality and can really set the ground to shaking if they have the mind to.
I've thought that before actually. How I don't tend really to bother with things like revenge, grudges or any kind of deliberate harm of any kind, but if I ever do (aside from just BS kidding around) then I go all Monte Cristo on yo ass.
And 'power'... yes. But power
to rather than power
over. If you get what I mean?
My mom said to me once "Most people can be predicted at least a little bit. You know the general sphere of what they can and can't do, what they're capable of. But what scares me with you is that I don't know if there's anything you're not capable of, if you thought it was necessary. If the person you are right now needs to do something you yourself can't support, you'll just morph into a person that can."
Which reminds me of a conversation between Q and Riker:
Q: Honestly, if I were still a Q do you think I'd degrade myself like this?
Riker: If it served your purpose, yes!
I like to think I use that power for good, so to speak... I can't think of any time I've consciously, knowingly or intentionally caused harm... on a non-consenting victim
That's the funny thing about it all from my POV: I've never used that ability as far as I know to do anything massively badass. And yet still it seems to make some people fear that I might, just the fact that I theoretically
could. I would've thought if they knew me, they'd figure out that I couldn't, not even theoretically. It's just not who I am. Ti is in the way.
edit - actually I have been pretty badass now I think of it, in the past... that thing Oberon says he's never given free reign to, well I have a few times and it's caused a lot of devastation cos see, I couldn't just pick one angle to attack from. So I attacked from all of them. But even then, perverse as it might sound, I believed it was ultimately for the good.
I think it really is about limits when you're young, wouldn't you say Oberon? And then as you get older and wiser, then it
becomes about risk vs reward, once you've pushed one too many limits too far and finally got a bite in the ass big enough to FORCE you to pause in your reality-tinkering long enough for some serious reflection.