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What Monkey Paw Wish would you be willing to take? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Lumisal@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For those who don't know, a Monkey Paw Wish is when you get your wish granted, but in an unexpected usually negative way.

Example:

I wish human caused global warming would stop.
It does, but because WW3 leads to Nuclear Winter.

The question here though, is what wish would you be willing to take even though it'll get monkey paw'd?

So basically you don't care if the consequences, or would be willing to take the sacrifice for it.

Others can come up with the negative scenarios if they want and the original wisher can decide if it's still worth it

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[-] beliquititious 2 points 4 days ago

Depending on how many fingers are left I would make the following wishes:

I wish the entire world were governed by egalitarian justice.
I wish that anyone who would use violence against another living creature would instantly die of a heart attack instead.
I wish that every human has the resources they need to live the life they want for themselves.
I wish that all people understood the true nature of the reality in which they live.
I wish all trans people had been assigned the gender, or lack thereof, they identify with at birth.

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

~~I have no idea what that means.~~ All are equal under our new machine overlords, who were programmed to grant happiness to all and therefore locked us into pods and pumped us full of drugs...
Everyone who showers or washes their hands dies due to violence against microbes, who count as living beings.
Nukes for Iran, tanks for Putin...
People understand how inherently unfair reality is, leading to deep depression
All people are gender swapped. Now, the people that were cis are transgender

[-] beliquititious 1 points 4 days ago

Sounds good to me. I doubt our new machine overlords would let the iranians or russians do anything with their new toys, but either way I am totally okay with this outcome, if for no other reason than I want to see all the bigots suddenly dealing with their periods.

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I want to see all the bigots suddenly dealing with their periods.

Between most dying to 2 and the rest being drugged out of their mind due to 1, I don't expect much of a reaction.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

All are equal under our new machine overlords

That's not egalitarian because there are overlords. If it's a singular, non sentient machine then it could still be enslaving us and not count as a ruler so it works for egalitarian.

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes, I was thinking rouge non-sentient AI, which I described. Machine overlords was just figure of speech + futurama reference.

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