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So, if you could change one thing about the human race, what would it be and why? Would you do away with aggression? Would you make us all the same height? Would you change our languages all to the same language?

Would you do something beneficial or detrimental?

So, if you could change one thing about the human race, what would it be and why? Would you do away with aggression? Would you make us all the same height? Would you change our languages all to the same language?

Would you do something beneficial or detrimental?

I'd eliminate the terrorists, and the Bush adminiistration, which are equally bad.

I would do away with racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Seems unambiguously good to me.

I'd replace these damn pincers for a hand with four fingers and an opposable thumb.

Re-establish the numbers of whales to pest-like proportions, and make whale hunting legal, as long as you did it the old-school way (Native American-1800's style). Once my powers were gone, I would start my whale hunting, and prove to the world that Whale burgers are delicious (probably).

Ooops, I responded to the topic rather than the OP. Oh well.

I'd wipe out the disease that is humanity. :D

I'd do all that stuff like erase xenophobia etc,
and, I'd make us all look like elves....

I would shut down the Matrix.

i'd probably do away with bigotry and fearmongers.

I would do away with racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Seems unambiguously good to me.

Only way you can accomplish that is by eliminating humanity.

With asexual clones growing up in uniform environment it might work.

I'd make sure everybody had the same exact capacity for intelligence. I would also give everyone a third nipple. Vote for me as your God.

I'd enjoy abusing my newfound powers and control humanity like pawns. :D And also, let pies fall from the sky!

Only way you can accomplish that is by eliminating humanity.

Or just by changing it. Which was the question.

I would eliminate humanity's capacity for violence against one another. Some thing like....surgery,would still be permissible,with the subjects permission. but any nonconsensual bloodletting is totally verbotten. Which would stillleave us room for football.Of the type preferred by your nationality.

I'd force everyone to go hunting for dropped pennies. When all the abandoned pennies were accumulated, they would be used to end world poverty.

So long stupidity.

I'd remove that annoying bit of humanity which enables us to keep pointing at other humans and say that they're not human.

After that, I'd lounge around sun-kissed shores with cool drinks and a reefer.

I would do away with sapience and tool use. More trouble than it was worth.

Or just by changing it. Which was the question.

Yes, change it in a way that removes humanity out of humankind.

When 10 kgs (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=535230) or 20 kgs (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=535196) of fat or 10-20 points of "I"Q (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12956742&postcount=16) define your value as a human being it is preposterous to think you could make sex or color discrimination vanish without asexualizing and homogenizing humanity...Only by removing differences by replacing humans with asexual clones with uniform upbringing you *might* be able to remove weightism, sexism, racism, ageism, etc...

Manifest in a public place and declare that all religion is useless shit and that if I see anyone practising, I will smite them! Thus rendering all religion null and void, so there is no need for its existence and we can all sit in a nice love circle smoking pot to a resonating round of Kumbaya.

So, if you could change one thing about the human race, what would it be and why? Would you do away with aggression? Would you make us all the same height? Would you change our languages all to the same language?

Would you do something beneficial or detrimental?

... don't know if this qualifies, but hey, I'm God.

I'll terraform Mars. God did it in 7 days (or eons... whatevers.) I'll do it in 7 seconds. Make it a green, fruitful and viable planet filled with life and resources.

Then I will move through the earth, removing all the truly faithful and placing them on Mars.

They will be naked. no sneaking in any weapons and stuff, and their bodies will be changed so that they will be highly resistant to diseases and injuries.

That new world will be theirs to do with as they will, and the only message will be carved on the largest mountain range. it will say "YOU ALL HAVE TO GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME."

Then I will place an electromagnetic field around Mars that will prevent any man-made signal or craft from Earth reaching Mars.

then I will sit back and let each world think they got the better deal.

I'd order a giant all-consuming fireball for earth, and start over again.

:D

"Perhaps God should have had a day of rest first, and then spent six days creating the earth"

I would make everyone gay. The world would then become a much more fabulous place.

Oh, and before everybody yells about the human race extinguishing after a single generation, I'd also make in vitro insemination failproof.

I would eliminate petty assholery.

any nonconsensual bloodletting is totally verbotten.*stockpiles poison and other nonbloody murder weapons*

I would bless Fred Phelps with a 9 inch black penis in his ass. All would be righted in the world then. :)

I would bless Fred Phelps with a 9 inch black penis in his ass. All would be righted in the world then. :)

I would SO vote for you if this were an "Elect God" thread.

I would do nothing. Nothing at all.


Violence, war, and the like... they enable progress to be made. improvement, advancement... You would kill off humanity if you ever got rid of it.

So I would do nothing. Perhaps give clarity to the rare few who are intelligent enough to appreciate it on my reasons. But, outside of that... nothing.

I would SO vote for you if this were an "Elect God" thread.

:D And that shows your wisdom!

Hmmm...

I would... revert mankind to the very start again, to mean everyone ever killed wouldn't have been, and given mankind the react to love their fellow man rather than fear them and then let things progress from there.

Step One: Put all humans in suspended animation
Step Two: Redo the Earth's geography so that there are several extremely isolated yet resource-rich (each would have more space and resources than they'd need for a LONG time)
Step Three: Repeat Step Two on a couple more planets after making them all habitable.
Step Four: Make sure the humans won't notice the change via partial mind wipe
Step Five: Put equal numbers of males and females in each region
Step Six: Make reality rendered in anime
Step Seven: Make the humans re-animated and see how many idiots think they have anime powers. Watch those fools hurt themselves.
Step Eight: Re-freeze the humans. Throw in a couple goodies for the humans (whateve else I feel like)
Step Nine: Full mind-wipe
Step Ten: Re-animate humans

EDIT: Almost forgot...

Step Eleven: Put "Those Who Say They Know "The Truth" Are Liars" On all mountains

Hmmm...

I would... revert mankind to the very start again, to mean everyone ever killed wouldn't have been, and given mankind the react to love their fellow man rather than fear them and then let things progress from there.

Hello overpopulation, then! :eek:

Hello overpopulation, then! :eek:

Right, in that case, I'll have it that half the population are infertile.

I'd probably only screw up and make it all the men though.

I'm a failure god. :(

I would crush humanity.

With my fist.

Right, in that case, I'll have it that half the population are infertile.

I'd probably only screw up and make it all the men though.

I'm a failure god. :(

Aww, come on. Here, have a Divine Cookie.

Yes, cookies! That's it! If I was God, I'd make it rain warm, chewy chocolate chip cookies!

I bet that'd solve world hunger and famine.

Aww, come on. Here, have a Divine Cookie.

Yes, cookies! That's it! If I was God, I'd make it rain warm, chewy chocolate chip cookies!

I bet that'd solve world hunger and famine.

I'm right behind you, m'Lord!


See what I did there?

I'd make sure there were enough resources that didn't damage the planet around. Then I'd eliminate starvation. I'd make sure evry person who wanted porn got it and then on the moon, to fuck with humanity I would write:

"I'm on ur moonz watching ur moves."

Then on all the mountians I would write:

"God was here. Kthanxbai!"

I would make the glowing words 'YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG' appear over every place of worship.

... don't know if this qualifies, but hey, I'm God.

I'll terraform Mars. God did it in 7 days (or eons... whatevers.) I'll do it in 7 seconds. Make it a green, fruitful and viable planet filled with life and resources.

Then I will move through the earth, removing all the truly faithful and placing them on Mars.

They will be naked. no sneaking in any weapons and stuff, and their bodies will be changed so that they will be highly resistant to diseases and injuries.

That new world will be theirs to do with as they will, and the only message will be carved on the largest mountain range. it will say "YOU ALL HAVE TO GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME."

Then I will place an electromagnetic field around Mars that will prevent any man-made signal or craft from Earth reaching Mars.

then I will sit back and let each world think they got the better deal.

That's a pretty good post. Been thinking about it a while? :D

I don't think i "know best" or anything, but i can damned well be sure that i would change the way people persuade themselves and groups of gullible people into believing bullshit based on their emotional and psychological instabilities.
...and on the flipflop of that, i would also make it easier for people to displace their spiritual essences from their bodies, without being actually dead, but only people who had already determined a significant amount of self-discipline.

We have everything we need to achieve everything we ever could.

Tampering with human nature is not only unwise, but unnecessary.

We have everything we need to achieve everything we ever could.

Tampering with human nature is not only unwise, but unnecessary.

Are you saying that from a mechanical perspective, as in "i fixed up the car so if you treat it right, it'll get good mileage and take ya where ya want to go"?

Or are you saying it from a semantic perspective, as in "oh well, there's no such thing as perfect, we just need to straighten our priorities and such out, and we'll be okay?"

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From a god's perspective, we could be either horribly off track, or a great experiment, perhaps?

From the perspective of being subject to human issues, i'd say there's a lot that wouldn't be unwise at all about changes.
Certainly, a forum like this illustrates as much on a daily basis.

Or are you saying it from a semantic perspective, as in "oh well, there's no such thing as perfect, we just need to straighten our priorities and such out, and we'll be okay?"
That one.
From the perspective of being subject to human issues, i'd say there's a lot that wouldn't be unwise at all about changes.
Certainly, a forum like this illustrates as much on a daily basis.
Changes to human nature are unnecessary. Any changes that need to be made are needed in the media, in culture and in political and economic structure.

That's a pretty good post. Been thinking about it a while? :D

... actually, no. just thought it up when I posted. Thnx

I would eliminate the impulse that makes people post replies in a thread before reading/comprehending the OP.

I would eliminate the impulse that makes people post replies in a thread before reading/comprehending the OP.

*suddenly NSG slows to a friggin halt* :D

In the blink of an eye, every church, mosque, synagogue, bible, koran, torah, etc. in the world would vanish.

*suddenly NSG slows to a friggin halt* :D

*FLORT*
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In the blink of an eye, every church, mosque, synagogue, bible, koran, torah, etc. in the world would vanish.
Oh mods !
...we'd be left with ... our ... own thoughts. :eek:

*suddenly NSG slows to a friggin halt* :D
Peace and quiet, for once.

Peace and quiet, for once.

Exactly why we frequent it :p

If suddenly imbued with the power of a god, I should probably have to commit suicide. I know exactly what I would do with such power, which is why I must never have it.

Any attempt to pretend otherwise would constitute only the most extreme arrogance.

My idea would be to give all humans invicibility - we cannot die. We retain our aggressiveness, but nobody gets killed. After recovering from the recession caused by the collapse of the arms industry, we would turn our energy to more constructive measures, such as figuring out how to deal with overcrowding - the obvious solution, of course, is to use all the money and resources we spent on weapons to expand space programs and build space colonies.

We'd also get rid of a lot of religious extremists, who would have to work out why the human race - the majority of whom are infidels and heretics, no matter what religion you are - has been blessed with immortality. I would love to see the look on a suicide bomber's face when he realized that not only is everyone around him still alive (though a little shaken from the damage to their possessions), but he is as well? Eventually, they'd realize that religious warfare is obviously a bad thing, because G-d has apparently decided to stop it.

Apart from the overcrowding (which we could solve), the other drawback would be that a lot of people who probably deserve to die would of course live - certain dictators, for instance. But the dictators would face a worse punishment - losing power. How do you control a populace that cannot die?

Any other objections?

I would make everyone else Gods, complete the ability to make decisions for themselves and guide their own destiny. We would all be equals with the freedom to do whatever we want. Then I would continue to live my life, just as it is now. Oh, wait...

Any other objections? Just this. at what point will people stop trying to kill each other? after we've exhausted all our Nukes? or would we then turn to research more powerful and destructive weapons that would do nothing but eat up resources.

sure there are those that would want peace, but inorder to get that peace they have to meet those fighting with weapons since they won't listen to reason, escalating the war.

and being invincable does not mean unkillable. after the last plants and animals die off from radiation or whatever, humans will begin to starve to death as their organs shut down due to lack of food.

even if you grant Humanity immortality as well as Invulerability, humans would collapse in a weakened state, unable to move and unable to die.

Just this. at what point will people stop trying to kill each other? after we've exhausted all our Nukes? or would we then turn to research more powerful and destructive weapons that would do nothing but eat up resources.

sure there are those that would want peace, but inorder to get that peace they have to meet those fighting with weapons since they won't listen to reason, escalating the war.

and being invincable does not mean unkillable. after the last plants and animals die off from radiation or whatever, humans will begin to starve to death as their organs shut down due to lack of food.

even if you grant Humanity immortality as well as Invulerability, humans would collapse in a weakened state, unable to move and unable to die.

Sorry, I meant immune to injury as well. And would we go as far as nukes? I doubt it.

And you wouldn't need to meet weapons with weapons. Just start walking towards them. If they push you away, get a bigger mob.

Mmh. Be grateful I don't have the power, I'd simply hit reset.

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Sorry, I meant immune to injury as well. And would we go as far as nukes? I doubt it.

And you wouldn't need to meet weapons with weapons. Just start walking towards them. If they push you away, get a bigger mob.

... would starving be considered an injury? Dehydration? I wonder...

that's why I said they would collapse. unable to move, but also unable to die.

also, then it comes down to who has the bigger mob. then someone throws a gernade (that would still push people away, while not injuring them.) then someone uses a tank. (the image of someone pressed into the ground like a cartoon character after the tank rolls by is giving me chuckle fits.) then someone uses guns and rocket launchers (as the projectiles would stil push them away.. assuming Invulerability here.) then people would use poisions and chemicals (assuming discomfort and illness, but no fatalities) then all you need is someone with the bright idea to try nukes...

and all you need to do as God is have the looney tunes soundtrack playing while you sit back and enjoy...

First, I'd order a serious rewrite of the Bible, the Qu'ran and just about every other Abrahamic book in existence. Give every fundie and extremist aneurisms with the more humane, secular and not so dogmatic approach to religion.

Then I'd tell Pope Palpatine, "Vatican II Stands."

I would do away with racism, sexism, and homophobia.


Interesting you chose that over disease, suffering, starvation etc.. Just sayin'.

As for me, I would get rid of hell if there was one. Eliminate disease and have old age or extreme sports accidents as the only forms of deaths. I'd resurrect all the great music legends and try to form the greatest band on earth (haven't decided who yet).

I think I would make the phrase "this hurts me more than you" the literal truth for everyone.

That might stop a few people doing some bad things, don't you think?

well first, theres no such thing as god...but

FIRST I'D RID OF ALL RELIGIONS!

look in our history...trillions of lives lost to a couple holy places

and even in our government some use religion as an excuse. ("i hate homosexuals because in the BIBLE..bla bla", also pro life because the bible says...well until your born atleast)

Me? God?

First Thing: Self-perpetuate my power...
-If it lasts forever, I'll get more time to do things...
Second Thing: Settle down to think about what to do...
- And think really hard... I may even give myself a cognitive boost to think harder...

Then again,
Fantasy worlds doesn't sound too bad, especially if you're the only wizard...

well first, theres no such thing as god...but

FIRST I'D RID OF ALL RELIGIONS!

look in our history...trillions of lives lost to a couple holy places

and even in our government some use religion as an excuse. ("i hate homosexuals because in the BIBLE..bla bla", also pro life because the bible says...well until your born atleast)

Lol, exaggeration much?

I'd make everyone able to shoot lasers out of their eyes... or do something cool.. and make life like a movie.
juvenile: yes
still awesome: yes

sorry for a double post.. but if you think about it.. most of the ideas here involve making humanity "hate free" or like... getting rid of war and stuff.. or everyone just being "good". While this all sounds fantastic, doesn't that constitute removing free will? Without free will.. humans are just a bunch of robots with no purpose. What would we do then? I'd rather just not exist than exist without purpose.

four things:

Get rid of dictatorships.

make people a whole lot more tolerant

Make people smarter

Give myself a woman who practically worships me (power-madness much)

So, if you could change one thing about the human race, what would it be and why? Would you do away with aggression? Would you make us all the same height? Would you change our languages all to the same language?

Would you do something beneficial or detrimental?

Change one thing. Specifically about the human race? Hmm...

I would give human beings the ability to control whether they conceive or not; thus requiring that while having sex, both the male and female must be specifically trying to procreate.


Give it some thought. It's more amazing than it sounds. *nod*

I would send everyone back to the old days where oil was a myth.

I would send everyone back to the old days where oil was a myth.

Wouldn't they eventually keep existing and propegating until oil WASN'T a myth again?

Change one thing. Specifically about the human race? Hmm...

I would give human beings the ability to control whether they conceive or not; thus requiring that while having sex, both the male and female must be specifically trying to procreate.


Give it some thought. It's more amazing than it sounds. *nod*

Can i also implore you about some discretion regarding the whole issue of STD's and such, 'specially the deadlier ones?

Not to say you couldn't make the non-deadly ones more humiliating. :)

I would appear on International Television at the UN, and I would tell everyone that religion is bogus and that all that really matters is that you are a good person to your fellow human, animals, and to yourself. You don't have to give money to preachers, or churches, or any other religious institution. Churches and place of worship doesn't have to be 500 people in the same place, it can be a few friends getting together and talking about how to better themselves. Or it can be your own meditation space. In the end of the day, how you act in this life will far outweigh how many times you went to your place of worship.

Then I would smite the Phelps family by relocating them to Castro Street and unable to leave.

I would appear on International Television at the UN, and I would tell everyone that religion is bogus and that all that really matters is that you are a good person to your fellow human, animals, and to yourself. You don't have to give money to preachers, or churches, or any other religious institution. Churches and place of worship doesn't have to be 500 people in the same place, it can be a few friends getting together and talking about how to better themselves. Or it can be your own meditation space. In the end of the day, how you act in this life will far outweigh how many times you went to your place of worship.

Then I would smite the Phelps family by relocating them to Castro Street and unable to leave.

Excellent. *bows*

Would you relocate Phelps with the implementation mentioned earlier? *nods emphatically*

Excellent. *bows*

Would you relocate Phelps with the implementation mentioned earlier? *nods emphatically*

Without lube. *nods*

Without lube. *nods*

All would, indeed, be well with the world ... if only for a little while.

I don't think I'd ever do anything. I'd just make a half-decent living winning bar bets. *Nods*

I would so go and play games with the Church of Scientology :D

I'd leave everything as is... as far as I know humanity is perfect as it is.

With that in note, I continue to watch "Stupid Things Humans Do".

Can i also implore you about some discretion regarding the whole issue of STD's and such, 'specially the deadlier ones?

Not to say you couldn't make the non-deadly ones more humiliating. :)

Unfortunately, I only had one change. Had I been able to make some more, then yes. Specifically, I think the cure for lethal STDs should be pleasantly bizarre, sexual and embarrassing. :)

When I want to be a god I just play Black and WHite...

Wouldn't they eventually keep existing and propegating until oil WASN'T a myth again?

Yes. http://209.85.12.231/11055/49/emo/dry.gif

I would eliminate the ability to feel love. why you ask? Because I'm a bastard thats why.

Hmm... god for a minute? Well, being omnipotent I extend my time as god for eternity, or, if I can't do that, make the minute last forever. Once I'd done that I would go back to living my life as a human being, albiet aided by god-like powers.
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Which I would eventually abuse and become either a super villian or dictator of the world. :D

I'd make everyone able to shoot lasers out of their eyes
Best idea of the lot.

I would do away with religion. Which would in turn negate my existence... oh well. Immortality isn't all it's chalked up to be.

I would so go and play games with the Church of Scientology :D

haha. that's the best one yet. :)

I would make people mentally connected to each other in a kind of 'net :>

Change one thing. Specifically about the human race? Hmm...

I would give human beings the ability to control whether they conceive or not; thus requiring that while having sex, both the male and female must be specifically trying to procreate.


Give it some thought. It's more amazing than it sounds. *nod*

That is a REALLY good one! For this, (and for so many other reasons) you would win my vote for God if you ever decide to run. :D

I would remove income taxes, cause Islam to be obliterated, send all America bashers to North Korea, speed up the development of Spore, establish world capitalism, send the membership of Free Republic to the same dimension Islam is sent to, convert Mecca into a shopping mall, abolish all drug laws and censorship laws barring kiddie porn/bestiality and the like, abolish public education and mandatory schooling, abolish all environmental regulation, abolish all government except for the legislature and military, make Al Gore shut the hell up, send social conservatives to all gay prisons, execute the Guardian's staff for high treason, abolish all monarchies beside the Papacy, make a special day where all atheists must stop whining and vice versa for my fellow theists, bring all the US presidents back from the dead for an all out brawl, and abolish all restrictions on owning guns beyond criminal record checks.

Best idea of the lot.

Are those fricken' sharks with fricken' laser beams attached to their fricken' heads?
:D

Unfortunately, I only had one change. Had I been able to make some more, then yes. Specifically, I think the cure for lethal STDs should be pleasantly bizarre, sexual and embarrassing. :)

Sounds like the right mix, just gonna be extremely sensitive process to get there, methinks. :)

For instance, Watermelon fucking cures HIV. :)

Three words:
Exploding
Frisbee
Launcher

If I only got one change to humanity... I'd be really torn. Between giving us the powers of Wonderboy/Young Nasty Man, i.e. flight, the power to kill a yak from 200 yds away with mind bullets, and the power to move one another(emotionally). Just because all that stuff is superfluous and cool... Or I'd make it so humans never, ever have prejudiced thoughts. Ever.



On second thought, despite how cool flying around shooting mind bullets would be, the other choice would probably more useful, hrm?

On third thought, after finishing reading the rest of the posts... I'd just recreate the world to be all fantasy like, with dragons and dwarves and elves, and wizards and junk like that. And I'd so be a wizard.

I would like to abolish money and land ownership.

Wealth could then only be gathered by one's ability to hang onto it all.

All those sheep, cows and castles would need guarding and the mass would limit the fortune.

Ah... The dreams...

So, if you could change one thing about the human race, what would it be and why? Would you do away with aggression? Would you make us all the same height? Would you change our languages all to the same language?

Would you do something beneficial or detrimental?
I would eliminate the male/female distinction, and make pregnancy something that can be consciously chosen and controlled.

I would remove income taxes, cause Islam to be obliterated, send all America bashers to North Korea, speed up the development of Spore, establish world capitalism, send the membership of Free Republic to the same dimension Islam is sent to, convert Mecca into a shopping mall, abolish all drug laws and censorship laws barring kiddie porn/bestiality and the like, abolish public education and mandatory schooling, abolish all environmental regulation, abolish all government except for the legislature and military, make Al Gore shut the hell up, send social conservatives to all gay prisons, execute the Guardian's staff for high treason, abolish all monarchies beside the Papacy, make a special day where all atheists must stop whining and vice versa for my fellow theists, bring all the US presidents back from the dead for an all out brawl, and abolish all restrictions on owning guns beyond criminal record checks.

I would explain to you the meaning of "one thing". Then after that, I would pity your warped sensibilities, but that would not require godly powers.

So, if you could change one thing about the human race, what would it be and why? Would you do away with aggression? Would you make us all the same height? Would you change our languages all to the same language?

Would you do something beneficial or detrimental?

I would make us all genetically identical. Clones.

All of the women would look like each other, and all of the men would look like each other.

I would make us all genetically identical. Clones.

All of the women would look like each other, and all of the men would look like each other.

Errrr... why?

I'd have a gene that kicks in whenever any human accumulates more than 10 times the amount of wealth needed by any human to live comfortably for the rest of their lives without lifting a finger. That gene would activate the sharing lobe of the new human brain, and we wouldn't have to see athletes with three-carat diamonds on both ears, rims that spin, and McMansions.

I would make us all genetically identical. Clones.

All of the women would look like each other, and all of the men would look like each other.
The first sentence and the second sentence contradict one another. "We" would not be all identical if you preserved the genetic distinction between males and females.

For instance, Watermelon fucking cures HIV. :)

Reminds me of Me, Myself & Irene.
:D

I'd write a code into the fabric of the universe that prevents the complete loss of the human species and then I would delete myself.

I'd write a code into the fabric of the universe that prevents the complete loss of the human species and then I would delete myself.

You just made me sad.

n/k

Huzzah for my first post.

I would have to give people the ability to change their physical manifestations at will. Effectively, to give the soul the ability to form the body as it sees fit...so long as we can still distinguish who is who (perhaps through some psychic link or somesuch).

I'd also try to cheat the system by creating a ring that bestows the wearer with God-powers, and I'd wear it. But that's because I love power.

I'd...be rather afraid to mess with anything big. Butterfly Effect and all that. It's like wanting to get rid of all the spiders in the world...We would be overrun by bugs. If we got rid of all the stupid people then the pretty smart people would become the "stupid" ones...Then we're back where we were.

If we stop all violence against eachother and disease...We starve to death because we overpopulate. The economy goes even lower because we're paying for more people. More poverty, more welfare, more buildings to house and cars to drive and pollution to ruin the earth.

Take out religion and a lot of people lose hope or purpose.

People lose hope and they look for something to fill the void.

They could fill the void with many things...Some good, some bad.

Now, all this isn't to say I wouldn't like to shut a couple of people up. But even that could be dangerous because it would be so easy to get carried away. Kinda like Death Note in that regard...

i'd lower human fertility. do something to the cycles of nature that tecnology couldn't cheat arround that would moderate human firtility to keep human population levels in relation to the rest of their environment from getting so completely out of hand.

if there were few enough humans for what they insist upon being thoughtless about to not be a problem then humans would not be a problem.

so as far as doing anything to humans is concerned lowering and installing some sort of automatic moderation of their fertility that actually works would be pretty much the key.

yes there are also problems with aggressiveness and ego. and a zillion spurious arguments in favor of them. possibly some usefulness to each in extreme moderation. trouble is, most of these kinds of problems are cultural rather then biological, and i really don't quite see what even a god could do about that on a long term and sustaining basis.

but with few enough humans, only enough and a very little bit more, to keep the species going, and some mechanism to prevent a lot more from comming into simultanious existence, even those problems become something they ought then to be well and easily able to work out for themselves.

now other then tinkering with the species itself and its inter-relation with nature's cycles of renewal, probably the best thing would be to have given it a planet MUCH less rich in combustable materials. as with the size of the population, much much smaller reserves of petrolium, coal, and fissionables.

gratifying and comfort securing tecnology is quite possible without them, and far more healthily for all concerned, humans and everything else they share their world with.

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Well, ideally I would want to make everyone more curious, more open-minded, more skeptical of second-hand information, more inclined- at their core- to the scientific method so that every last one of us (or you, since I'm being divine) would always be questioning the universe, hungry for knowledge and understanding, and never just letting yourselves be spoon-fed answers or "meaning." Everyone would be explorers and 'scientists' in that they would want to know the truth of things, and would set out objectively to discover it for themselves in a way where their resultant ideas were vindicated and defensible instead of just "believed." Everyone's brain would be like a sponge, their memories like steel traps, their whole lives through, so that they could learn as much as they liked, and they'd never have to stagnate in ignorance of any particular area. Humanity would be a race of consummate scholars and academics, students and teachers, devoted to life-long learning and sharing and pooling knowledge.

That, and I'd make everyone bisexual because I think it would do wonders for equalising how the genders are treated because the restrictive dichotomies of gay/straight, man/woman, masculine/feminine would grey and blur and if everyone could be attracted to everyone else and express sexuality more freely the world would be way better. And hotter :) No more "I can't get with hot guy X or hot girl Y because they aren't gay/straight." Kickass.

But, since I can only do *one* thing... hrm... I would create some divine artifact-- a monument the size of a mountain, or writing on the moon, or a constellation or something undeniably the work of an all-powerful being-- something that could only be the work of god-- that said (in some universally understandable language) "God has stepped out. Forever. You're on your own from now on. Figure the rest out for yourselves. Just be good to each other."