Wish : Get Rid of All the Jerks

Wish : Get Rid of All the Jerks

Imagine that you have a magic

lamp, and you’ve got three wishes

to change the world. How about

this for Wish #1: Just get rid of

all the jerks who are messing it up

for the rest of us! Get rid of all the

criminals, all the bad politicians

(not the good ones that you

agree with, of course), all the lazy

people, all the greedy people, all

the prejudiced people, and all the

intolerant people (well, at least the

ones who disagree with you).

That’ll fix the world’s problems,

right?

Let’s imagine the world after our

magic wish comes true. All the

bad people are magically rolled

up in a katamari or something,

and the world is now populated

entirely with good people.

Everyone’s happy! Yay! Everything

is peaceful and happy and perfect!

It worked!

But then... good people start

turning bad.

Good people turn to crime.

Good people start to hate.

Good people become violent.

Good politicians become bad

politicians.

What’s wrong? What happened

to our perfect world?

The world today is a giant badpeople-

making factory, so taking

out all the bad people doesn’t solve

the problem, because it’ll just

make more.

The problem with getting rid of

the jerks is that we’re living in a

giant jerk-creating factory.