What Monkey Paw Wish would you be willing to take? (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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[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wish to be able to wish 3 times from an omnipotent genie that will understand and make come true my wishes the way I intended them to be undestood.

Then I'll use the genie to negate the effects of the monkey paw.

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[-] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months 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.

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[-] moonlight@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

I meet a beautiful intelligent woman, we are the perfect match for each other, we fall in love, get married and live happily ever after.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Ok take two, the wish is actually granted:

Your beautiful wife is incredibly intelligent and is perfect for you... as a result of profound psychopathy. She has chosen you specifically as the next in a chain of husbands with whom she has meticulously crafted idyllic relationships for the purpose of complete psychological and emotional control. Once sufficiently in her intoxicatingly romantic grasp, she convinces you of the simple joys of homicide. You eliminate her previous husband together, then your own family as a gesture of pure devotion. You fall into a pattern of orphanage arson, elderly abuse, and kitten stomping before she ultimately gets you both positions as mid level managers at united healthcare.

You couldn't be happier.

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 0 points 6 months ago

If this was just some minor crime, sounds great honestly. I definitely draw the line at the murder of innocents though. Not worth it.

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, all kitten-stomping and the other stuff, but United Healthcare?

No way. I'm not a monster!

[-] WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As you celebrate your 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th anniversary and witness the heat death of the universe, you realize that all matter and energy has dispersed, is no longer observable, and that you and your beloved will be floating in a void of nothingness forever.

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

I kinda don't hate this, if it's an eternal youth / total invincibility sort of thing, and existing in the vacuum of space isn't uncomfortable.

Actually, with future technology it might be possible to modify our brains to make a sort of shared virtual dream world, with an avatar-style neural connection. Not a bad way to spend eternity.

Also even without brain/body modification, we might be able to train ourselves to hibernate and just wait for a big quantum fluctuation. Assuming the universe doesn't have an end, we would eventually meet intelligent life, even humans, again.

I'm honestly undecided. As a mortal human, I don't really know if I want true immortality or not.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It is all the result of paranoid schizophrenia. She doesn't exist, you estrange your family, and you ultimately die from a slow descent into indigence and squalor because you are unable to escape the prison of your own mind.

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

Realistic. Doesn't the monkey's paw have to actually grant the wish though?

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[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The one Guillermo and Nandor drafted in what we do in the shadows. Mostly because it's already prepared to be safe, not because I particularly care for the outcome.

[-] Oka@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 months ago

I never understood Monkeys Paw, ty

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[-] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

I wish Senjogahara-san loved me... Wait a minute...

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