Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24104118-20140721164934/@comment-24729606-20171208153024

Exactly and that is FAR too much power for any being (no matter how wise they may be or how good their intentions might be at first). We should all know the saying that "Absolute power corrupts absolutely". Absolute anything always leads one to go astray (even if one does not at first realize this is happening) so the only real way to forestall that would be to make wishes that would affect me in the same way as they would everyone else. Besides if I follow the traditional pattern in fictional accounts of people getting to wish for anything they desire I'd just be doing what is best for me and not doing anything good for the world in the process. Some may be able to stomach that but there are FAR too many selfish and shortsighted people in the world already. I have seen too much ugliness in mankind not to come to the conclusion that we should not exist as a species. Call me childish for thinking that but I have thought long and hard about it and that is my conclusion.