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Explain to me why anyone would wish for world peace

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Nograts

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Given a magical genie in a bottle that would grant you three wishes.

What a freaking craptacular waste of a wish. World peace? Why? You would have nothing to gain.

What you should be wishing for is to become Master Lord Dear Leader Tyrant King of the planet. See that would be better. Then everyone would be your slaves and you would have peace, because, you know you're the dictator of the planet.

Think about it.
 
Elevenpog said:
Given a magical genie in a bottle that would grant you three wishes.

What a freaking craptacular waste of a wish. World peace? Why? You would have nothing to gain.

What you should be wishing for is to become Master Lord Dear Leader Tyrant King of the planet. See that would be better. Then everyone would be your slaves and you would have peace, because, you know you're the dictator of the planet.

Think about it.
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Eh, people kill eachother for the dumbest things, but then again - we are reproducing way too much so it balances out a little.

I'm a little torn on what my ultimate choice would be on world peace. Conflict in general is part of what makes society. Someone doesn't like something, so they revolt. How else do you think the country you are in was formed?

To put it simply, world peace just isn't logical. When someone is happy, another is unhappy.
 
Three wishes, eh?

Here's mine:

1. I want to be in perfect health. Not immortal, mind you, just perfect health.

2. I want everyone to agree with me on everything. (Think about that)

3. I want the best apple fritter in all of human history. Hot and with a cup of coffee, please. Now would be nice.
 
Elevenpog said:
Given a magical genie in a bottle that would grant you three wishes.

What a freaking craptacular waste of a wish. World peace? Why? You would have nothing to gain.

What you should be wishing for is to become Master Lord Dear Leader Tyrant King of the planet. See that would be better. Then everyone would be your slaves and you would have peace, because, you know you're the dictator of the planet.

Think about it.
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World peace also means people dont take away the loot you got from your two other wishes.
 
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I wouldn't. A content and peaceful world might not be as interesting. I'd just wish for all the wars to be fought with nerf bats.
 
In an episode of "The X-files" Mulder wishes for world peace and all of the other people on the planet disappear.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
One wish - unlimited knowledge. The rest, I can make happen on my own.
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Haven't you seen the Stargate where O'Neil gets the ancient's knowledge? His brain almost 'splodes man. Or did you not know that.... he didn't know that.

HE'S NOT ONE OF US. BURN HEEEIIIIMMM!!!
 
Explain to me why anyone would wish for world peace: To win a beauty pageant by appearing to be 'concerned for the welfare of strangers'.

World Peace; if you consider humanity started 5 or 6 million years ago when proto-man first started being bipedal and had free hands to wield weapons; 2 million years ago when the more adaptive 'homo' species replaced proto-man with more ingenuity to defend and kill; some 200,000 years ago when homo sapiens with the ability to modify their environment first appeared or 8 to 10,000 years ago when the dawn of civilization started us an exponential path to dominate our environment; the one consistent fact has been man's nature of aggression toward others; sometimes channeled to other groups but always including aggression within groups: it seems 'man must fight.'

From that excessively long sentence above; I conclude that, as who? reminding us of 'The X-files' plot stated, until mankind is reduced to one 'Mulder' type or one 'Scully' type with no possibility of reproduction; will there be World Peace.

I hope I'm wrong in my conclusion.
 
World peace wouldn't work, not as things are now. That means you'd have to remove people's free agency, which allows them to make the choice to be peacemakers or terrorists, so you'd effectively have to limit people's personal freedoms. Actually, this always bugged me in sci-fi stories...the invading aliens or the aliens we invade were always "all peaceful" or "all evil" & that's just not how things work short of a hive-mind setup like the Borg.
 
If you're a dictator and basically have the entire populace against you, this is hardly "peace". You would probably become extremely paranoid, so the exact opposite.

On a serious note:

"One month extended orgasm" - how lame!

One some meme site someone made a poll like you did about the worst things that could happen, one of the choices was "you could never have an orgasm any more".

THINK ABOUT IT!

"Never have an orgasm any more"....would mean endless sex plus not having to worry about children. It would be awesome and would beat a month-long orgasm for sure 🙂
 
Kaido said:
World peace wouldn't work, not as things are now. That means you'd have to remove people's free agency, which allows them to make the choice to be peacemakers or terrorists, so you'd effectively have to limit people's personal freedoms. Actually, this always bugged me in sci-fi stories...the invading aliens or the aliens we invade were always "all peaceful" or "all evil" & that's just not how things work short of a hive-mind setup like the Borg.
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Alter the timeline so that we would have evolved to be a little less tribal and adversarial. Effectively rework what "human" is, from the ground up.
At that point, this timeline never happens, so no one's around to complain about not existing because of some genie. 😀



Another fun wish to try: Create a copy of this Universe. 1 inch to the left.
How powerful is this genie? :hmm:
 
Jeff7 said:
Alter the timeline so that we would have evolved to be a little less tribal and adversarial. Effectively rework what "human" is, from the ground up.
At that point, this timeline never happens, so no one's around to complain about not existing because of some genie. 😀



Another fun wish to try: Create a copy of this Universe. 1 inch to the left.
How powerful is this genie? :hmm:
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Elaborate to us your experiences with humanity outside of North America?
 
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