If You Had 3 Reality Altering Wishes, What Would You Do?

[Elend Venture he/him]

10 hours ago, Snorkel said:

Disclaimer, these are terrible ideas and would probably make a setting for a future distopia horror film

 

1 - We'd all be fixed, and babies would be created in a lab.  As our vets tell us - our pets are much happier without having hormone-induced urges, and it lowers the risk of cancer as well!  Surely the same applies to people.  No more will our emotions be influenced by hormones making us angry and competitive or weepy and exhausted or whatever. Nuh-uh!  And everyone could then act as masculine or feminine as they felt like, and nobody would be jerks to each other about it.

2 - (this is the REALLY unethical one).  People would be psychologically screened for sociopathy/psychopathy.  People with certain traits could be denied a certain class of employment (bye-bye psychopaths in management!), or just sent straight to prison before they get to do really bad things to people.
... OK this is terrible.  I'd at least make it standard practise for companies to do anonymous employee surveys for those in positions above them.  If you're a jerk in a leadership position, the company will find out and replace you with someone who isn't a jerk!

3 - a puppy

     Given the first request, the "OK, this is terrible" and the disclaimer, I somewhat expected you to also wish for the euthanization of the mentally or physically infirm as well.

[AonEne he/him]

10 hours ago, Snorkel said:

We'd all be fixed, and babies would be created in a lab. No more will our emotions be influenced by hormones making us angry and competitive or weepy and exhausted or whatever. And everyone could then act as masculine or feminine as they felt like, and nobody would be jerks to each other about it. 

I know this could have bad effects too, but honestly I’m down for it. 

[Snorkel]

1 hour ago, Elend Venture said:

     Given the first request, the "OK, this is terrible" and the disclaimer, I somewhat expected you to also wish for the euthanization of the mentally or physically infirm as well.

They can all have puppies too.

 

Good puppies though, not the kind that chew everything.

[Elend Venture he/him]

3 hours ago, AonEne said:

I know this could have bad effects too, but honestly I’m down for it. 

Indeed. Knowing the health care industry, the hospitals would in all likelihood charge some ungodly fee for the production of test tube babies (presumably clones but possibly just a Final Empire Terrisman sort of setup), making it impossible for anyone not extremely rich to have children without going into tremendous debt and effectively ruining their life. The extraordinarily rich don't generally have many children anyhow, so the population would plummet. There would not be enough people to man the infrastructure required to create test tube babies, or most modern conveniences, actually, and quality of life would also plummet. The government would inevitably be forced to either stop the Nazi Germany style forced castration or to mandate the distribution of test tube babies and risk the famine that would ensue, as the crops (having been so undermanned) would not be large enough in order to support the suddenly enlarged population.

They could, of course, start off with the second option from the beginning to avoid famine: That being to force the distribution of children upon the citizens using socialized healthcare from the start. The healthcare establishments would still charge excessive amounts of money from the government, which would go into massive debt trying to keep the population high enough to continue their authoritarian nightmare society. They would eventually be forced to default upon their debts and lose the source from which they paid the hospitals to make babies. They would once again be forced to stop the castration.

That's assuming that they wouldn't be overthrown by a revolution of those who do not wish to be part of an authoritarian society right from the get go, the most likely outcome.

Edited April 13, 2020 by Elend Venture

[Snorkel]

Well, I was thinking that part of the wish would be that creating test-tube babies would not be difficult or expensive.  It is a reality-altering wish after all!

[+Doomstick he/him]

More wishes

[Merlin]

Ugh... at the moment, my wishes are purely for a scientist working on the cure for the virus to have some epic vision, then to wake up and know a simple, effective, and inexpensive cure. 

[Snorkel]

20 hours ago, DoomStick said:

More wishes

</purposely mishearing you because it's funny>

[+Doomstick he/him]

44 minutes ago, Snorkel said:

</purposely mishearing you because it's funny>

Lol