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[kindall]

I'd suggest that instead of trying to address the reasons people kill each other (e.g. lack of resources), you simply give them a strong incentive not to kill. E.g., "I wish that a person who is directly responsible for killing another, either by taking action that results in their death or by causing someone else to do so, will henceforth experience extremely unpleasant but non-fatal nausea for 24 hours, unless the person they kill is an obvious and immediate danger to others around them or has already killed, or caused to be killed, at least one other person."

I think people would quickly find it hard to raise armies in such a situation and the bulk of the problem of war would be solved. It would also provide an after-the-fact way to tell whether someone you just executed for murder was actually guilty -- if the executioner hurls, he wasn't. Not real useful for that purpose, I guess, but kind of an interesting side-effect.

This could probably use some further debugging.

[PotatoEngineer]

[kindall]

Yeah, good point that soldiers are an obvious and immediate danger.

There are probably other ways to include soldiers... you can't just say "members of an organized military group representing a country" because then they just stop having organized groups. So some tweaking would be required.

[Mad_Literalist]

How about:

"I wish that from this point in time onward, this universe would be perfect."

Any problems with it would not be perfect, correct? Since a world where world peace does not exist is not perfect, you have to have world peace. A world created by a corrupted wish isn't perfect, ergo the wish cannot be corrupted.

[Ronfar]

[Josh]

if i wanted world peace i would wish there was only one religion, and that every one was stoned.

also sean connery should come out of retirement.

lots of love
the josh-man

[LotusMegami]

I wonder what a genie would consider a "perfect" universe? One without pesky mortals to bother him with wishes, perhaps.

"I wish for all human beings to be incapable of violence against other humans. Violence being defined as not only direct acts of physical aggression, but any action deliberately intended to cause serious physical harm."