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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:

  1. I wish human caused global warming would stop.
  2. 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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[–] moonlight@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

I was gonna say it would be to easy if every wish is just a mental problem skewing reality. it should do the thing in reality and fuck you in reality.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Hmmm... yeah maybe. I'll take another crack in a minute.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Well, reality is what we perceive, so it might actually be a worthy tradeoff for some people

[–] WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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 5 points 1 day 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.

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[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

  1. I wish the entire world were governed by egalitarian justice.
  2. I wish that anyone who would use violence against another living creature would instantly die of a heart attack instead.
  3. I wish that every human has the resources they need to live the life they want for themselves.
  4. I wish that all people understood the true nature of the reality in which they live.
  5. I wish all trans people had been assigned the gender, or lack thereof, they identify with at birth.
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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never understood Monkeys Paw, ty

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