u/The_Cosmic_Impact13

Say you have a telepath that's currently having a seizure which (because of their powers) causes all civilians in a 50 meter radius of them to have the same seizure. Like Professor X in Logan.

Or someone's powers randomly activate somewhere mundane like school or church and they end up lasering a giant hole in the roof.

Or maybe the person doesn't have any powers and they have a stroke and the plane Thier piloting falls out of the sky

I am writing a story but I just hit a wall when I realised I have no idea what the legal aspects of living in world with supernatural people would look like.

I don't know if/how governments would police and/or classify a while demographic of people with various and wildly unpredictable non typical abilities. When a person's "super" strength can be anything from holding a bucket of water over their heads for hours without struggle to a guy who can bench press a fully loaded semi truck for 5 reps before passing out; then you consider outliers who can bench the semi for 6 or 7 reps.

I'm thinking classifying people a world with supernatural powers would be as difficult as classifying people by race; there'd be no reliable non-dna metric to use. For people with potentially dangerous abilities, how do you handle the risks associated with involuntary events such as medical emergencies? Whose at fault if the offender is as much a victim as everyone else?

And what's the difference between how the law treats/sees supers Vs non supers? Would it be similar to how it sees minors vs adults? The mentally insane Vs sound?

Say you have a telepath that's currently having a seizure which (because of their powers) causes all civilians in a 50 meter radius of them to have the same seizure. Like Professor X in Logan.

Or someone's powers randomly activate somewhere mundane like school or church and they end up lasering a giant hole in the roof.

Or maybe the person doesn't have any powers and they have a stroke and the plane Thier piloting falls out of the sky