• Philosophy and Spirituality
    Welcome Guest
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    Threads of Note Socialize
  • P&S Moderators: JackARoe | Cheshire_Kat

What would you do with 12 wishes

D

Deleted member 521610

Bluelighter
Joined
May 6, 2019
Messages
6,809
Location
Texas
So i came with a thought experiment. Lets say some fairy allows you to have 12 wishes but there are terms to each wish but they can rewrite the world to a degree. I.E you can wish for only one disease to get cured at a time not all of them at once. This applies to many things aswell you can only wish for singular things not things that give multiples. You can wish for humanity starvation to end. You cant not wish for all diseases to be cured at once.

You can wish things like all people are Einstein level of smart. But the conditions to get said wishes is that for a year once a month this fairy would appear and everybody who wanted to sign up had to battle to the death in some sort of real life hunger games battle royal setting tournament style in a dimension that was beyond our time and space but still had its own physical laws and time each round would consist of over 1000 people in a type of map similar to earth but with survival and hand to hand combat weapons you can team up with one other person or go solo. In the duo mode both people would have to agree to said wish if one of you dies you either bring them back to life with your winning wish or let them stay dead to do whatever you want with your wish. and if you both disagree on said wish you can murder each other to gain the winning wish. Anybody that dies in said battle royal will be dead forever can not be wished back to life at all. To make things fair the fairy will make everybodys avatar the same strength body build but its up to and your own surival knowledge and tactics to win.

The maximum number of people allowed into said thing would be 50k. 50 rounds would be run along side each other and winners of each round will onwards to the final round of the winning people where firearms will also be hidden in the map. To gain entry into said thing you would have to sell your own soul to said fairy who looks to lean on the more evil side i.e you become a eternal slave to said fairy. The only way to gain your soul back is if you successfully win all 12 wishes over the year.

Would you play such a high stakes game knowing that every 50k people only one can win and it will be hard and brutal and death can come at any instant and the afterlife is spent forever been a slave to said fairy. If you win the wish you can opt out to keep playing the game but if you are automatically guaranteed a spot in the next game. Only so many people will be allowed per each country starting with random apperances of said fairy to people at first the world will believe people to be insane they can either accept or decline if declined the random draw carries on til said selections are filled. But after the first wish is made the world will become aware this a reality and a high stakes game


What would you wish for if you won? would you make the world a better place or a worse place would you spend said wish on yourself or humanity?. Would you fight each round just to try stop anybody evil winning.

If said wish totally destorys the world unintended the fairy will give you a chance to fight and win a wish to reverse all wishes up to said point. But not only reverse that single wish.

Even something positive to the world could end up destorying the functional world so choose carefully.

What would you wish for would you become evil would you save the world
 
Last edited:
the risk to reward has to be high but if you win one round you will be the most adept to win all others. To rise up vs evil if you are pure hearted a determination to win to save the world from the others who would enslave the world with their wishes.

Plus its a eternal slave to fairy not a eternal hell we don't know what said thing would do with said people but as i said it looks to lean more evil but could be neutral its plans are unclear.
 
Well I need more detail about the afterlife before making a decision and giving you an answer.

Do you happen to know if there are fields of Erythroxylum coca or Erythroxylum novogranatense in the afterlife?
 
Determination and pure intentions aren't enough to make accurate decisions even when the fate of the world and your eternal soul aren't on the line... I think that's what's on the line anyway, to be honest I didn't really get the purpose of this apocalyptic reality show and I read over it twice. Just to be able to wish for whatever you want, within some fairly confusing parameters?

Actually I was just about to type "no thanks" but if I knew without a doubt that this game existed then maybe I'd be obliged to participate since otherwise someone could just wish me out of existence. Let me check the rules again...

OK, third time reading, so you have to go through a battle royale at beginning where you all have the same physical ability to make things fair but not the same skills, so basically still very unfair. I wouldn't participate in my current state because in this horrific alternate reality the most gifted children would all be trained since birth by rival superpowers, probably with ruthless military discipline reminiscent of ancient Sparta, to give them the best chance of getting through to the wishes round. Everyone would be an elite martial artist and an expert strategist, I am neither of those things so I would not stand a chance.

Obviously this brutal social structure would only develop in the first place if the world survived the first few rounds which would be pretty much totally random. I guess I'd have a better chance in the earlier stages, but then, if I really wanted to play a direct role in the fate of our own more tame strand of the reality tree, I would have tried become a politician or something. So probably I still would not participate, but would just sit back and try to have faith that the better aspects of human nature would win out in the end.

If I did play though - my first wish would be that this evil fairy had never existed.
 
I would opt out of the world without any consequences, taking those wishes with me or is this a trick question? ;)
 
well people are selected at random with a limit per each country. And no children will be in it its all adults 18 + of age should of mentioned that. It all goes down within a year. By the time any government realizes its real it would not have the time to react. Plus the only person who knows what the ins and outs of the game and the randomize arenas and what it will be like is the first winner.

Since the game ends in a year i don't think that gives people much time to do anything.

It essentially comes down to this school of thought if the world could become a way better place we could eliminate world hunger cancer etc and then half way through some evil person wins and makes it his domain whatever then a good person wins the 12 th round and now the biggest decision of course said evil person is now dead so his wishes if they were for his own world domination are now irrevlant but he could of wished a zombie apocalypses or anything. This good person can only reverse a wish if all other wishes are reversed up to said point even a good wish could have a negative way on the function of the world.

But it comes down to this we have to recognize the world is already balanced and the only way to win this game is of course what you said wish the game never happened thus saving everybody. You can only hope in this game that at least one person is smart enough to recognize what you did or succumb to the temptation of their own desires.
 
Well whaddya know... in that case... I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE! 😄

Hah nah, probably I still wouldn't. Even though it all happens in too short a time period for society to change that much, so there wouldn't be people who had trained all their lives for this scenario, there would no doubt still be a lot of far more capable people than me. Would be a mix of very capable people who also had good intentions and were doing it knowing the dangers of someone else with less good intentions winning, capable people with purely selfish or malicious intent, and inept egomaniacs of both types who would no doubt get eliminated early. People with military backgrounds would be strong favourites, probably... plus there's be a smattering of warrior monk types, the latter of which I'd probably prefer to be victorious since military personalities can go either way, and in most cases even the best of them are required to swallow a possibly heavier than optimal dose of reality-distorting national patriotism... there'd obviously be a significant randomising element though. I mean I actually think on the whole the eventual outcome - in the most zoomed out sense, the triumph or destruction of the human species - would be the same, just with a lot more chaos and uncertainty, since 50000 is a much smaller sample size than the 9 billion that we are usually working with. Although in effect that number is a lot smaller since not all 9 billion people have the opportunity to affect the world in any significant way. But it's surely still more than 50000.

Another option I was thinking about although this might possibly be an illegal wish would be to wish to become omniscient the first time round, after which winning the second should be easy, and you can wish for omnipotence, and promptly use your newfound powers to delete the fairy and the game and then elevate humanity to a new era of utopian living and prosperity.

The only problem with that is that each time you play, assuming you do win, you're effectively condemning 49999 other people to a lifetime of servitude to a being of unknown intentions, and it's unclear if you'd be able to wish them back (I think it's another illegal wish but it's unclear what effect deleting the fairy and the game would have on any supernatural abilities gained from this game). I guess you'd know after round 1 after which you could potentially adapt your plans, but you're still required to condemn 49999 to nonexistence at least once.

If we were truly going to win as a species, the ideal outcome would be that everyone simply refuses to participate 12 times, no one risks their very existence, and the fairy leaves, disgruntled, to harass some other sentient species somewhere. But sadly there's probably zero chance of that happening.



...I just realised actually that even everyone refusing to participate could be a morally dubious choice, since if the fairy isn't stopped then maybe it will continue roaming throughout the multiverse setting up similar barbaric scenarios elsewhere, so maybe as a species we would have a moral duty to try to stop it. On the other hand though... how do we even know we can trust this fairy to grant wishes that would be threatening to it's own existence? By the sounds of things, we can't, but just have to take it on faith. If the fairy will just flat out tell us "nah, not doing that one, choose something else", then I guess we could try as first wish, fairy never existed, second wish, omniscience please, and then use that to figure out a better option, if omniscience is allowed and if the fairy is capable of granting it - maybe "as much omniscience as you can manage" would work as a third option, since the fairy is no doubt a very capable entity even if it is not truly godlike. For sure though, a whole lot of risks and unknowns remain.
 
Last edited:
how pure hearted can somebody remain when they are given the absolute power to bend the world to their will. Power can corrupt all. Meaning some one could go in pure of heart and by the end of it go down the dark side.

I imagine having to kill shit loads of people to get said wish would really be traumatic and fuck a person up in the head that even the most good intentioned person by the end could say fuck it i went through hell for this ima use it on myself.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top