• balderdash@lemmy.zipOP
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    The seed of a psychic link between all humanity has been planted by your request. It grows, gradually, throughout the year. At first, people can only vaguely feel how others are feeling. In six months, everyone in the same room feels the feelings of everyone else as though the feelings were their own. In a year, humanity is psychically connected to the maximum degree: the Harmonic Human Horde is complete. We now have world peace, but at the cost of our individuality:

    (Note: I am not a human being. If you’d like me to join the hive mind, this would require a second wish.)

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      This isn’t a business transaction, where I ask for something and you take something else in return. It is a magical wish.

      You don’t get to decide how empathy works between people. It is already an established mechanism. Your job is to nudge it to develop at an enhanced rate between individuals in a given time frame.

      The world remains the same. Humans remain the same.

      So, if this is what you have to offer, keep your offer.