It seems these questions are usually caveated. In Aladdin, the Genie can’t kill anyone, bring people back from the dead, make someone fall in love, or grant more than three wishes.
There’s also usually unintended consequences of your wishes due to an unusual or literal interpretation. You might wish to never age, but instead of granting immortality, the genie kills you, stopping you from ageing. Wishes for large amounts of physical currency such as gold may be granted, but you could be crushed if the genie wills all of that wealth on top of you.
You have to phrase your wishes carefully, as a mischievous genie tends to look for loopholes in each wish.
I would want my wishes to have positive impact across the world. There’s a lot of things preventing humanity from reaching its full potential. I think putting a stop to the most common causes of death would be very beneficial for humanity as a whole.
It’s tempting to wish for world peace, but I don’t believe it’s actually possible. Theoretically, world peace would remove all ‘evil’ from the world. Unfortunately, conflict just seems to be a part of human nature. We tend to be self-interested, constantly competing for resources, which instantly creates conflict. Essentially, a wish for world peace may be granted, but it could not possibly last due to human nature.
But more importantly, throughout history, you can see that the greatest creations tend to be created in the face of adversity.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
World peace may remove all adversity from our lives, instead we would be complacent. We would have no drive to push humanity to the next frontier.
I believe that human’s cannot reach their full potential if their individual needs are not met. Things like safety, security, shelter. Fulfilling those needs would give everyone a more even playing field.
Really, I think the ideal thing would be for to have unlimited wishes, or the same powers of the genie, so you could fix more than three things.
I think my wishes would be:
- My wishes do not have unintended consequences.
- (Holding a notebook and pen) For everything that only I write in this notebook to come true.
- I wish for freedom for the genie.