I wish for one electron to disappear from every atom. The net result would be that all atoms would now have a positive charge.
True, it would not only end all life on earth, but also destroy the entire earth. But everything would be positive.
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It breaks the whole universe. That’s a lot of charge density over a very substantial area.
Everyone is gifted with the ability to control their own fertility. You’re only fertile if you want to be. The only chance for pregnancy to occur is if both partners want it to.
I imagine that would cause a severe population decline, and I’m fine with that. There’s too many humans on this planet already.
Make everyone’s interpretation of “small thing” slightly more similar.
Low back pain eliminated in all humans.
Everyone religious wakes up tomorrow realizing that it’s just a social club and none of the god stuff is real.
So in this scenario where you have a magical Genie, you would use a supernatural being to stop others from believing in supernatural beings?
fight fire with fire eh
Who said the genie was supernatural? If I can see the genie in front of me and sufficiently measure it’s existence, then it is real and natural. “Super natural” literally means “outside of nature”, i.e. stuff that doesn’t have any evidence of ever existing.
OP said so.
OP called it a magical genie. Magic is by definition outside of nature.
If presented by observable evidence the supernatural exists in one specific case (the genie) then it is reasonable to suppose there may be other supernatural beings.
If this were a highly advanced alien with probability manipulating technology, that would be a different question.
Magic is by definition outside of nature.
A magician would disagree with you :D
If this were a highly advanced alien with probability manipulating technology, that would be a different question.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
If presented by observable evidence the supernatural exists in one specific case (the genie) then it is reasonable to suppose there may be other supernatural beings.
Imagine I was a person who had never seen a narwhal, and thus didn’t believe they were real; suppose I believed them to be supernatural creatures. So to prove me wrong, you bring me to an aquarium and show me a narwhal and say, “look, a live narwhal. See? They are naturally occurring creatures”. I could respond with, “well no, that’s obviously a supernatural creature, and now it’s reasonable for me to also suppose that unicorns exist!” Do you see any flaws in my logic?
We’ve hypothesized of a situation where we have an observable creature in front of us. At that point, regardless of how “magical” we believe it to be, it is, by the definition of “supernatural”, not supernatural. However, when it comes to supernatural beings that we have not observed, this genie has not given us any more evidence for their existence.
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Whoa dude. I just woke up and was not prepared for philosophy!
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As an American, one of the most positive things that could happen to the world is the abolishment of the United States as a government. We’re directly or indirectly responsible for most of the ethnic cleansing that has gone on the last several decades.
What would you replace it with?
I’d wish for the absence of discrimination
You’ve gotten a bad date for the last eighteen dates because you can’t discriminate between people.
Why though? Preferences would still stand but you wouldn’t discard people based on prejudice :D
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Remove the ability of carbon dioxide to act as a greenhouse gas.
Pooof, we all freeze to death.
Still makes the world better, just not for humans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Only if you like cold barren rock, there’s plenty of those already - isn’t it nice to have an interesting one with lots of stuff happening?
I assume that the other greenhouse gasses would still be plenty good at their job. Why do you assume that the drop would be catastrophic?
CO2’s share of the greenhouse effect is pretty significant (about 20% afaik), and the other gases wouldn’t just fill the gap. So it would get quite a bit colder.
AFAIK without any greenhouse gasses the temperature would be about -18 °C so 20% of about 45 is 9° C which is a drop from +25 to about +16 which is quite cold but not exactly humanity ending cold, right?
Apparently it’s a bit more complicated than that.
Simple. True empathy for everyone. Literally feeling what others feel
So every time someone stubs their toe, every other human would feel the pain? Everyone would be completely overwhelmed by all kinds of feelings all the time.
Not a very small thing maybe, but: All people gain ability to instantly recognise bullshit (at work, in media, interpersonal relationships, etc)
I’m not sure this would be a positive. I think there are a lot of pleasantries we afford each other to deescalate a situation.
I mean, we kinda see it anyway when people are lying a bit just to be polite, and I wouldn’t be mad about it. But that’s not what I was talking about.
What I really meant is the ability to see malicious lies, the ones designed to take advantage of us. This would be really OP, i think xD. I apologize for the misunderstanding, english is not my 1st language.
Fair, you’ve got to be careful with those genies though, if your wish isn’t carefully crafted they’ll happily use it against you 😉
People regain the ability to agree to disagree, and stop hating each other over political issues.
I feel like that one could go wrong. There’s regions where slavery is still de-facto legal, isn’t it awful to just let that slide as their opinion?
Isn’t slavery universally panned, though?
Nope. Well, mostly, but there are a few regions where the tradition is still going. Mauritania only banned slavery in like 2003, and the law is basically a joke. Foreign journalists will tell stories about visiting and being served by rough people dressed in rags, until the host notices them staring and gets nervous.
The gulf states are also famous for having slaves, although in that case it has more to do with cost savings and a lack of scruples, and I don’t think they would call them slaves, just workers-who-have-to-work-and-can’t-leave. There’s various forms of forced labour in probably most places too, but it’s a matter of definition if prison labour or indentured labour count as slavery (which is usually what they’re counting when they put out figures with a giant number of modern slaves).
What would that look like? I’m a trans woman. When someone is standing there trying to take my rights away, and actively working to remove my access to care and support, what does “agree to disagree” look like?
“I accept your right to be what you want to be and don’t care about it anymore. I am sorry for all of the damage I caused by getting so invested in an issue that has nothing to do with me.”
That would be nice, but to be fair, it’s also a bit more than “agree to disagree”
A deadly virus that kills assholes
I get your intent… I think, but taken literally that’s going to cause some issues. A virus that causes necrotic butt holes… Hmmm.
Hahaha i forgot genies are tricky that would be a shitastrophe.
Technically that’s just making the hole bigger. It’d have to seal them shut.
Nobody likes today’s leaders. No support at all.
