If you could permanently change one thing in the world today,

[branders seine]

what would it be?

[Mari333]

1. end all wars.

[branders seine]

2. that's a great start.

I would not object to that, but I think I might permenently replace all the energy needs of the world with safe, renewable green supplies.

[happy_liberal]

51. +10000000000000000000000000000

The people do not want war, just the politicians and corporations.

It is time for them to catch up with the rest of humanity.

When we turn our resources currently being used for war toward people in need in this country, new technologies for a clean environment etc. just imagine what could be accomplished.

Many people think the focus should be on global warming, not war, but they do not consider just how much our wars are fucking up the environment. I wonder how much CO2 is released every time they drop a bomb? The amount of oil they are using on a daily basis is outrageous, and the depleted uranium all over the ground, in dust then spread across the globe...

[peace frog]

52. That's where I start

Peace in the world. Overcoming violence, hatred, suspicion, mistrust. Nation helping nation, people helping people.

[Warpy]

3. Remove the human impulse toward greed.

That's really the root cause of nearly all horrible things in this world from poverty to war.

[rurallib]

4. make our elected Democrats real democrats

align them along the Bernie Sanders model. Yes, Obama also.

[ddeclue]

43. +1!

[napi21]

5. Hatred! It doesn't ,eatter if it's religious. racial. gender, sex, or

anything else you can think of. Hatred is what causes off the problems I'n awar ofk and it's been like that for a very ong time!

[ZombieHorde]

6. Everyone who dies would rise up as a flesh eating zombie. nt

[Ian David]

18. How about just a sexually insatiable zombie? n/t

[ZombieHorde]

22. I took a 1 credit zombie class in school and we had to write little 1 page papers comparing

specific zombie movies, such as Dawn of the Dead and Fido, with certain people's writings, such as Freud and Marx.

In one of my papers I argued zombies ate people for sexual reasons instead of nutritional reasons. The paper was fun to write.

[branders seine]

35. all zombie papers are fun to write

and ironic, what with the "brains" thing

[LaydeeBug]

7. Bust the charters of lying ass politichurches and/or federally fund all campaigns with caps on

private donation. It's public office. It ought to be a publicly funded election

[T Wolf]

8. Cull the pukes and their ilk from the population. Do that and EVERYTHING else would

work itself out among the remaining, sane humans.

A GOP registration is not necessary for identification. Since this is a fantasy exercise, I have a magical device that detects those with any reich-wing tendencies.

[lunatica]

9. end inequality of every kind

Everyone to have the exact same rights. To education, life, liberty, and health and housing.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

41. Seconded.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Make all human society sustainable.

Thanks for the thread, branders seine.

[givemebackmycountry]

11. No more Religion

No more racism.
No more hunger.
No more oppression of women and children.
No more hate.
No more discrimination.
No more violence.


I don't ask for a lot do I?

[branders seine]

27. I don't know about accomplishing "no more,"

but you could eliminate much of all those things with just one wish.

Your first.

[timeforpeace]

12. Changing the human genetic code to prevent the predilection towards war.

[Spazito]

13. Poverty n/t

[midnight armadillo]

14. The plague of kittens

Damn things are everywhere.

[Juche]

15. Quadruple the quality and quantity of science, technology and wealth

I have faith in humanity. I think when we have wealth, technology and science for the most part we use it to help ourselves and each other.


That or dramatically increase our baseline of empathy, and make it harder to shut empathy off.

[LeftishBrit]

16. Put an end to poverty - it is not only one of the worst evils in itself, but a big cause of others

[Ian David]

17. Without any change to myself or my circumstance...

... I would like to be the most miserable person on the planet.

(I think it was Isaac Asimov who came up with THAT as the best wish to give a Genie).

[branders seine]

30. very nice.

[90-percent]

19. Change some NHRA Rules

Return Top Fuel Dragsters and Fuel Funny Cars to a 1,320 foot long race track instead of the currently shortened 1,000 feet.

-90% Jimmy

[ChicagoSuz219]

20. I once wrote an essay about Utopia...

...it began with getting rid of money.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. My life is pretty close to Utopian, then ...

not much money.

:hi:



edit for spelling.

[ChicagoSuz219]

44. You'll soon reach Nirvana... ;-)

Look for me!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

21. enact real campaign finance reform that would eliminate

lobbies/lobbyists

[dkf]

23. This gets unrecommended? Seriously?

What is with these people?

[branders seine]

24. This place has become, well, nasty.

The good people are driven away, and the creeps remain, ever more smug.

I thought today would be a good day to think about real hope and real change--the kind MLK Jr. represented.

[dkf]

31. Yeah it is a nice thought.

It's good to have a dream. I wish everyone had a renewable energy source that gave them independence from those who control oil and gas and heat and electricity. Without a need for oil we don't need a military all over the world protecting our access to energy. We could stop playing "the great game" and attend to our needs at home. Peace through economic security.

[timeforpeace]

34. Rec'd. It's a great what-if thread for a slow and somewhat gloomy MLK day.

[omega minimo]

37. unfortunately

UnRec caters to nasty

[no_hypocrisy]

25. Have individuals empowered to protest and to change policy that

takes away their power, their money, their future, and their peace, without apathy or the fear of retribution

[omega minimo]

38. + 1,000,000

[bemildred]

28. Global warming. nt

[bigwillq]

29. That every citizen would have equal rights (nt)

[Xithras]

32. Make the female menstrual cycle a biannual event.

Alter the human genome so that human females only get one opportunity to conceive every two years. It would still permit humans to have a sustainable number of children, but severely slashes runaway population growth. It would almost eliminate teen pregnancy as well.

I doubt the ladies would mind much.

[alittlelark]

40. +1 And make men only capable of procreation once a year.

[Xithras]

45. Not possible without eliminating sex entirely.

It may be "unfair" to target only women in this, but biological reality has granted men and women vastly different reproductive systems. Most importantly here are the base states for each of our systems. The male reproductive system is "always on". It is constantly producing reproductive material from puberty through its very elderly years. Changing that system to only work at certain times would require a vast re-engineering of the male reproductive system. You would essentially have to shut down the male testes, which would eliminate the male ability to have sex entirely (no testes means no sex drive or erections). While there are probably a minority who like that idea, I suspect that the overwhelming majority would react violently if informed that they only get to have sex once every two years.

In contrast, the native state of the female reproductive system is "off". Ovaries are not constantly releasing eggs, but instead are dormant for all but 5% of their overall existence, cycling briefly on a quasi-monthly basis to release a single egg. This system can be modified by only minimally changing the timing of those cycles. It can be kept in its natural state, with only the frequency of its activations being modified. More importantly, as decades of birth control usage has demonstrated, altering these cycles has little to no impact on a womans ability or desire to engage in recreational sex with a partner. Only reproductive capacity is altered.

The female body houses the tools required for the continuation of the species, so that's where the modification would need to take place. It may seem unfair to target one sex, but in this case it's simply a factor of human physiology.

[alittlelark]

54. It does not have to be - vasecomies could be improved

To allow for an 'on' w/ minimal medical care.

It is certainly easier than messing w/ the female reproductive cycle.

The male reproductive system is simple

The female reproductive system is amazingly complex.

[guitar man]

50. oh no

you don't want to screw with that!

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/annuale/221774/

:rofl:

[hootinholler]

33. Eliminate the influence of The Family n/t

[Initech]

36. I'd rid the world of the influence of AM hate radio and Fux Noise.

[alittlelark]

39. Give corporations a life expectancy of 20 years.

After 20 years their assets are sold off and shareholders paid.

[Skittles]

42. no repukes

[Codeine]

46. Nuclear power everywhere.

:hide:

I'm serious, though.

[southernyankeebelle]

47. Put religion back in church where it belongs.

[Motown_Johnny]

48. "rapture" away all the religious types........

.... so that everyone left makes decisions based on evidence and not on theology

[The2ndWheel]

49. Clocks

Unplug them, unscrew them, break them, whatever.

[Motown_Johnny]

53. someone isn't paid by the hour

[Blasphemer]

55. Free high quality lifelong education for every citizen of the world nt