Subject: The Grail IS a mind-reading intelligent wish-granter...
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Posted on: 2018-11-28 17:04:00 UTC

Its desire is to manifest itself in the world, in the form of a wish, so I don't think it especially cares what the wish is as long as you make one? The catch is that it can only carry out your wish by means you yourself can comprehend. So, one guy's wish was to save people from suffering, but he'd lived his life as an assassin, saving the many by killing the few or the one—even if the one was someone he cared about. His wish was basically reduced to a mathematical process by which the population of the world was eventually wiped out altogether. (He refused to make the wish once he saw the consequences.)

So yeah, canonically, it's a tricky business indeed. It relies on the wish-maker to really understand what they're doing, and themself, to boot.

Or, well, that's my read on it from limited information about the franchise. I'm sure someone will correct me. {= )

For context, this wish is where I arrived from a starting position of "Thanos has a point, but I don't want to kill people, so..." Basically, what's the best way to reduce the world's population? I can't math hard enough to limit the birth rate without eventually making us go extinct, so that's out. Educating women, though—that helps. Let's make sure all women can get educated. And heck, why leave out the men? Everyone gets access to education. While we're at it... And here we are.

~Neshomeh

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