How best to turn a wish against the wisher?

I would play this game with my friend that was inspired by the myth of the Genie, or Djin. The idea is that this Djin must grant any wish, but as it is a being of evil it will do anything to ruin that wish while following it to a T.

So, what is the wish, and how could it be ruined?

Two examples:



"I wish for world peace" - and he grants it by killing all the people of the Earth except for the wisher who will be alone the rest of his life - but in complete peace as conflict requires two people.

"I wish for a ham sandwich" - and the ham is dry, and the bread is that gross kind with all the weird stuff in it.

 

I'll take a stab at it, or at least theorize. Your wishes were this:

So now humans live forever, are completely invulnerable to any harm, and have none of the basic needs. Maslows, to be exact are essentially: Physical needs, safety needs (pretty much taken care of by the invulnerable thing) emotional needs, and finally the need to DO something with your life (self actualization). They can no longer harm or kill anything on purpose or by accident that lives (it's really good that they don't need to eat at this point or they would be in trouble). On top of that they have access to another dimension of unending resources.

The only problem I can see with that is without needs the human race could possibly stagnate. After all, necessity (or needs) breed invention. With nothing left to strive for, what would we do with ourselves? Without a need to keep ourselves entertained, would we bother doing anything at all?

Either that or we become the plague of the universe as we keep breeding and filling up worlds upon worlds while never dying. It would be like cockroaches, only more annoying.

 

huh. ah well.

Lol 'serious research'

As for the 'your idea of world peace' thing, perhaps it would use the inferiority of the human mind (namely it's incapability to see every possible outcome of a decision) against us. For example, if your idea of world peace is a world where there are no weapons and no conflict, where all humans got along perfectly, perhaps down the line aggressive aliens take over and subjugate us because we can't resist, and the takeover is completely peaceful because there is no need for conflict, but the aliens want us to do horrible things like slave over building a space laser lol.