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    We are in a climate emergency that must be drastically dealt with immediately.

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      I might even go so far as plant a few policies in their heads. “We are in a climate emergency, and we should address it immediately with policies such as carbon tax-and-dividend, ending subsidies for harmful industries such as fossil fuels and industrial agriculture, investing in both established and promising renewable energy sources such as solar and wind and tidal and geothermal, reducing our dependence on cars with more electrified public transport and denser urban design, and encouraging better urban land use patterns with land value taxes.” One sentence = one thought, right?

      Knowing humans, if we didn’t use this magical power to guide them to good solutions, a good number of us would conclude, “That’s it, we need to nuke China and India to save the Earth!”

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        I’m not sure that just putting the message in their heads would make them actually do it. I feel like the (American) right wing party would just start campaigning with “The commie liberals are using Jewish space lasers to plant their eco hoax in our brains! We must vote the out before they use it to turn your children trans!!!”

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    I’d go with “Hey, it’s God. I actually AM real, but I’m heading out. You guys are on your own from now on, no more afterlife or anything. So be good to each other! Alright, I’m out. (oh, and just some advice? you might want to get ahead of this climate change thing)”

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      Sounds like a recipe to stir up religious backlash on insert group here for driving god away

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        Yeah, I was hoping the wording of my message would make people give up religious malarkey, but you’re probably right. Even being told “don’t use religion to be a jerk” wouldn’t stop people from doing it.

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    “MothBookkeeper is the dictator of the world, and I completely trust his decisions.”

    Nevermind the logistics of that; power lives where people believe it does.

    Then I could make multiple beneficial changes, such as:

    • Heavily taxing the rich
    • Enacting drastic climate policy
    • Banning paper stickers that rip as you try to take them off
    • Sending Mitch McConnell on a rocket into the sun
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      Considering our names start similar and that you going to do something about stickers that rip off, I give you my support

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      The Florida and Texas Governors have to fight to the death on a platform suspended by a stationary helicopter a mile over cocaine shark infested waters, and the pilot bailed out 20 minutes ago. Trump is the referee.

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      Lol as a kid me and my sister raised our hands to the ceiling to give goku our chi in solidarity, while watching tv.

      I’m pretty sure if I hear this in my head, today, as an adult, I’d do it again. No questions asked

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        Ahh, but if I die of starvation, I can’t very well make people happy, now can I? Assuming everyone followed the thought’s direction, the way to best make people happy is for me to live a healthy and long life, probably. (Of course, it’d be up to each individual to determine how to best make other people happy. Maybe I would decide that my contribution to climate change was causing unhappiness, so I would end my life.)

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          When you only live to make others happy, you disregard your needs by putting others first. That ends affecting your well being. Your whole personality turns into service and you are easily exploited and abused.

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            “the purpose of your life is to make others happy”

            No one said anything about only. My purpose is to build new things. I eat, sleep, and interact with others in an attempt to put myself in my best condition - this is no different.

            Ignoring self-maintenance is against any purpose but sacrifice

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      What do you mean by “God”?

      I mean, you gotta ask.

      A guy eats psychedelic mushrooms and sees something. Calls it God.

      A guy reads a story about God. Totally different understanding there.

      Same word, different meanings.

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    Give them all a vision of the Earth from space. Look at that, all ya sonsa bitches.

    “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.

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    The irresistible urge to consume at least one billionaire. They would think that if they don’t eat a billionaire they would die. Hilarity would ensue.

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        That’s a bit low. 5 million is low enough that it could still be made through the fruits of their own labour if they’re in a high paying industry. Would probably have to be $50M+ before you get exclusively the capitalist class.

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          Nah, gotta set the bar a bit higher. Maybe net worth of 1b+.

          And the thought should be that you feel like you would die if they aren’t eaten.

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          Thank you… I hate all the people who are “we’ll permanently destroy the earth and it’ll never recover!” crowd. Maybe for us it’ll be too inhospitable and we won’t survive, but nature is surprisingly resilient. From bacteria that can eat oil and plastic, to entire generations of flora and fauna living in irradiated landscapes, it will adapt and be here long after we’re gone.

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            Yes. Ecosystems as we know them will be decimated, but whatever survives will repopulate. Worse has happened before in Earth’s history.

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      I’ve been saying for a while that if I could, I’d increase baseline human empathy by 50% or enough to raise its minimum value to current baseline if they have less than 50% of baseline to start with, all up to a maximum of triple baseline levels. Enough to make the world a much better place, but not enough to make millions of people mentally ill or otherwise do more harm than good.

      I’d consider anyone suffering negative side effects to be acceptable casualties.

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    The experience of being the victim of real violence. It’s pretty clear most people don’t really get it. And it’s weirdly common for people to have romantic ideas about fighting, revenge, punishment, war, and even torture. I think it would be eye opening.

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      And oppression. Real, actual oppression, not whatever middle class white Christian Americans think is oppression.