Vampire or Werewolf? Which would you rather become?

For the purposes of discussion, I'm going to go with generic ideas of vampires and werewolves. I mean, if we got into a discussion comparing Anne Rice vampires to Dresden Files vampires to White Wolf vampires to 30 Days of Night vampires or comparing Dresden Files lycanthropes to White Wolf werewolves to werewolves with Chinese menus in their hands, then we'd be here all day! So, without further ado, for me, the disadvantages of being a vampire greatly outweigh the disadvantages of being a werewolf.

First of all, werewolves aren't stuck with the curse of immortality. With vampires, you're either cursed with having your loved ones die while you stay the same age, or you make them a vampire and you have to deal with them for all eternity. I don't care how much you love someone, after a few hundred years, living with that person will become intolerable.

Even without someone else to share eternity, I think that the pressure of the centuries with nothing but millennia to look forward to is the path to madness, and I don't think I could deal with that. Secondly, lycanthropes are 24-hour creatures. They can operate in the daytime or the nighttime.

Vampires are pretty much stuck indoors for half the day on average. While I am generally a night owl, I don't like having that schedule forced on me by physiology on pain of death. Thirdly, the things that kill vampires are in far more abundance than the things that kill werewolves.

Something as simple as feeling the sun on your face will make you look like you just opened up the Ark of the Covenant if you're a vampire. There aren't a whole lot of people that have silver bullets hanging around.

Vampire Pro: Living in a castle would be neat. Con: 14 year old Twilight fans will want to sleep with me.

Werewolf. Of course, I have a bit of a bias (cough cough), but that shouldn't factor into my amazing logic! Werewolves can live entirely fulfilling lives, uninhibited by some of the more deadly aspects of life.

They have the strength, senses, and nobility of wolves, and, best of all, they spread like wildfire. If you're a werewolf, you're like an Indian god-sneeze and you've made about a thousand more. Every nip, every cut, every touch of your blood on another person, every time you have sex, you create another werewolf.

Even if you aren't in werewolf form. And if you don't fight it, if you enjoy it, then you're creating happiness. Each of those people bites another person, cuts another person, has sex with another person?

You've got exponentially more werewolves. All of those werewolves enjoy being werewolves too. They're stronger than normal humans, live longer, better, more fulfilling lives with the drive of instinct behind their actions; all spurred on by an animalistic sense of delight in every action that they do.

And when the full moon comes out? More werewolves. Way more.

Eventually, there are so many werewolves that humans become rare. Werewolves, unable to feed, socialize with one another, and have fun being wolves together . Anyone can become a werewolf, so there's no class conflicts, just a lot of people existing.

The entire world takes an evolutionary step forwards. Puppies are born. The world forgets about old humankind, and actually acknowledges its leaders.

Class conflict is destroyed, everyone has a fierce sense of loyalty to their government, and subjugation of order is destroyed. Or, alternatively, everyone breaks down from being so forced together and starts killing one another. There are less people, and inefficient farming methods that degrade the soil and use up tons of oil are eliminated.

People no longer need cars because they can run really fast. Everyone's happier because everyone is slightly more original than they used to be, and there is built a profound sense of community and of self that never before existed in the cities of the world. People move to the carrying capacity of the planet, and the world is saved from global warming.

Based on new virtues of the good life implanted in the closeness of wolves, corporatism and consumerism die, and industrialism wanes, our lives enriched by one another. The crime rate falls close to 0 as people stop caring so much about things, and start caring about one another. Sure, tiny conflicts would erupt more often.

But then we wouldn't have giant wars with millions of lives lost; just scrapes and bruises and minimal life lost. Alternatively, consider if we had one vampire. There are only so many people that can become vampires, only so many people with the force of will to continue to live as the dead.

The world moves to its carrying capacity. All the turned vampires must suck blood to continue to live. However, this ratcheting action only goes so far, because there's only so much blood in the world.

If everyone was a vampire, blood would be a scarce resource. Wars would be fought, in blood, over blood, all conducted in the darkness. Alternatively, vampires could keep some humans penned away, and constantly drain them of blood, turning the human race into pets, or, at best, put them into something reminiscent of the matrix, draining them of their blood to stifle war.

Vampires are dead, and therefore, cannot beget life. The human race is now made of immortals, who slowly die off. Ideas never change again.

The world becomes stagnant. Everyone has their own Renaissance. At best, they all learn all that anyone could ever learn, but they receive only the empty joy at finding the answers-they can never have the joy of telling their children or telling the next generation of these things.At worst, they find only suffering, and everyone refuses to work in jobs that support the economy.

Because they no longer need necessities, vampires crate an economy created for luxuries. A high-brow form of super-consumerism is created, where the entire purpose of life is to accumulate more stuff, more slaves, more followers. There is much pomp and carefulness in chosen words, because you have to deal with the people you talk to for longer.

It's a slow, boring world. They live an empty, meaningless, endless existence. Vampires suck.

Look Im going to make this as simplistic as possible. Definitely vampire. I mean really if your a guy there is no question.

Vampires can hypnotize women to do what they want. I challenge a guy to say werewolf.

I really wish I could say werewolf, but I cannot. I'd rather become a vampire, hands down. I just could not deal with all of that werewolf hair.

Plus, vampires have cool teeth, and I look great in black. The whole "drinking blood" thing would really suck, though.

I was going to say werewolf, because it's only problematic part-time (hobby not lifestyle). But then I remembered that I've always thought it would be cool to learn a bunch of languages and such so the immortality thing would be a big bonus there, so vampire. But then I remembered I'm a Christian so as long as I stay tight with God I get eternity to do all that stuff anyhow, so back to werewolf.

But then I'm fairly modest so turning back to human in public and being naked would be an uncomfortable situation for me, so maybe vampire again. But then there's the very significant no leg-shaving pro to werewolfdom . .. Maybe I'll just stay human?

Hmmmm, I think Vampire. More considerations below! Pro Vampire: Immortal Can become a bat and fly Con Vampire: No garlic!

Personally grooming is hard without a mirror. Pro Werewolf: You apparently become a fantastic basketball player. Con Werewolf: That whole losing complete control of yourself thing every 28 days.

Another vote for vampire! First, I'm a serious control freak when it comes to my personal habits, so the whole being-out-of-my-mind, wild killer thing doesn't appeal. Besides, I might hurt someone I like.

I'd seriously regret the lack of garlic and sun, but as Darcy pointed out, I've already got the pallor anyhow. I'm guessing that cozy-home feeling of a coffin would override the claustrophobia. But, as pointed out in Ann Rice's books, now we have wide screen TVs so I can watch sunrises that way.Finally...I'd have time to do all the research I want!

YES! I'd be able to have multiple careers until I was bored and moved on! Unlimited time!

Really long lasting friendships! AH-HA-HA-HA! It might be worth the bad breath.

(BTW, I'm talking normal werewolves and vampires here, not any of those crappy myths Twilight pulled out of nowhere. ) I'm leaning towards vampire, because being a werewolf is a compulsive thing when there's a full moon, and you lose control of yourself completely and let the animal instincts take control. Sure, I would miss the sun, I guess, but really, the advantages of being a vampire are so much better.

You get to turn into a bat, hypnotize people, speak with a funny accent. So, yeah, full vampire for me. And don't let anything like Twilight or Underworld deceive you.

I can still be a faithful subject if I'm a vampire and you're a mutt. I mean, werewolf.

I would not prefer either one. I would like to remain as an human being :).

Vampire because I like waking up and knowing what I did that night :).

Its simple Vampires hate Sun so the best bet would be to go with Werewolf that is if you prefer night but if you need bllod assualting people at night is bad were as if your a werewolf you could just eat a cow.

Vampire. I want to live forever, and I'm a bit of a night-owl already.

I think that I would be a werewolf. If you're a werewolf, at least you can turn your friends into werewolves too, and not many people have silver bullets. If you're a vampire you either outlive your friends, kill your friends, or get exorcised.

Vampire because they have powers. Being a werewolf seems like it would be a pain in the butt.

Werewolf. Of course, I have a bit of a bias (cough cough), but that shouldn't factor into my amazing logic! Werewolves can live entirely fulfilling lives, uninhibited by some of the more deadly aspects of life.

They have the strength, senses, and nobility of wolves, and, best of all, they spread like wildfire. If you're a werewolf, you're like an Indian god-sneeze and you've made about a thousand more. Every nip, every cut, every touch of your blood on another person, every time you have sex, you create another werewolf.

Even if you aren't in werewolf form. And if you don't fight it, if you enjoy it, then you're creating happiness. Each of those people bites another person, cuts another person, has sex with another person?

You've got exponentially more werewolves. All of those werewolves enjoy being werewolves too. They're stronger than normal humans, live longer, better, more fulfilling lives with the drive of instinct behind their actions; all spurred on by an animalistic sense of delight in every action that they do.

And when the full moon comes out? More werewolves. Way more.

Eventually, there are so many werewolves that humans become rare. Werewolves, unable to feed, socialize with one another, and have fun being wolves together . Anyone can become a werewolf, so there's no class conflicts, just a lot of people existing.

The entire world takes an evolutionary step forwards. Puppies are born. The world forgets about old humankind, and actually acknowledges its leaders.

Class conflict is destroyed, everyone has a fierce sense of loyalty to their government, and subjugation of order is destroyed. Or, alternatively, everyone breaks down from being so forced together and starts killing one another. There are less people, and inefficient farming methods that degrade the soil and use up tons of oil are eliminated.

People no longer need cars because they can run really fast. Everyone's happier because everyone is slightly more original than they used to be, and there is built a profound sense of community and of self that never before existed in the cities of the world. People move to the carrying capacity of the planet, and the world is saved from global warming.

Based on new virtues of the good life implanted in the closeness of wolves, corporatism and consumerism die, and industrialism wanes, our lives enriched by one another. The crime rate falls close to 0 as people stop caring so much about things, and start caring about one another. Sure, tiny conflicts would erupt more often.

But then we wouldn't have giant wars with millions of lives lost; just scrapes and bruises and minimal life lost. Alternatively, consider if we had one vampire. There are only so many people that can become vampires, only so many people with the force of will to continue to live as the dead.

The world moves to its carrying capacity. All the turned vampires must suck blood to continue to live. However, this ratcheting action only goes so far, because there's only so much blood in the world.

If everyone was a vampire, blood would be a scarce resource. Wars would be fought, in blood, over blood, all conducted in the darkness. Alternatively, vampires could keep some humans penned away, and constantly drain them of blood, turning the human race into pets, or, at best, put them into something reminiscent of the matrix, draining them of their blood to stifle war.

Vampires are dead, and therefore, cannot beget life. The human race is now made of immortals, who slowly die off. Ideas never change again.

The world becomes stagnant. Everyone has their own Renaissance. At best, they all learn all that anyone could ever learn, but they receive only the empty joy at finding the answers-they can never have the joy of telling their children or telling the next generation of these things.

At worst, they find only suffering, and everyone refuses to work in jobs that support the economy. Because they no longer need necessities, vampires crate an economy created for luxuries. A high-brow form of super-consumerism is created, where the entire purpose of life is to accumulate more stuff, more slaves, more followers.

There is much pomp and carefulness in chosen words, because you have to deal with the people you talk to for longer. It's a slow, boring world. They live an empty, meaningless, endless existence.

Vampires suck.

I was going to say werewolf, because it's only problematic part-time (hobby not lifestyle). But then I remembered that I've always thought it would be cool to learn a bunch of languages and such so the immortality thing would be a big bonus there, so vampire. But then I remembered I'm a Christian so as long as I stay tight with God I get eternity to do all that stuff anyhow, so back to werewolf.

But then I'm fairly modest so turning back to human in public and being naked would be an uncomfortable situation for me, so maybe vampire again. But then there's the very significant no leg-shaving pro to werewolfdom . .

. Maybe I'll just stay human?

Another vote for vampire! First, I'm a serious control freak when it comes to my personal habits, so the whole being-out-of-my-mind, wild killer thing doesn't appeal. Besides, I might hurt someone I like.

I'd seriously regret the lack of garlic and sun, but as Darcy pointed out, I've already got the pallor anyhow. I'm guessing that cozy-home feeling of a coffin would override the claustrophobia. But, as pointed out in Ann Rice's books, now we have wide screen TVs so I can watch sunrises that way.

Finally...I'd have time to do all the research I want! YES! I'd be able to have multiple careers until I was bored and moved on!

Unlimited time! Really long lasting friendships! AH-HA-HA-HA!

It might be worth the bad breath.

Werewolf It suits my personality more. On the outside calm, collected, and good looking. On the inside a passion driven beast pursuing my desires and ripping my enemies to bloody bits as needed.

youtube.com/watch?v=jEQwwRQM1ZY.

There are a lot of other drawbacks to being a traditional vampire. No sunbathing. No swimming.

You are expected to dress for dinner. All the time! And your dinner can't have garlic.

On the other hand, you live, or perhaps unlive, for a very long time. Werewolves get to dress casually, if at all. But they don't usually seem to enjoy themselves.

They are usually snarling or in some kind of rage. The werewolves of Diskworld are an exception. Werewolves don't seem to get any longevity bonus.

I'd rather be a Sasquatch.

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