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        Being Superman is probably the best. Functionally immortal, perfect disguise is just 1 pair of glasses away so you can still find love, hold the world hostage for unlimited money you can move through a swiss bank.

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          hold the world hostage for unlimited money you can move through a swiss bank.

          Easy there, Homelander

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          Sure, you can find true love but but you can never have sex again. No human would be able to survive your orgasms

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            “The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom, and that’d kill him” - Brodie Bruce

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          Immortal

          That’s fun for the first million years or so but then get a little boring. Then about about a billion years when the sun starts heating up and effectively scorches and sterilized earth, you better hope humanity has found a different place to live. By the time the universe dies of heatdeath, you will have gone insane from trillions of years of lonelyness

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            I’m sure if you are superman you can find another planet with intelligent life.

            Else, maybe you can terraform some other planet and help humanity move there, you are fu**ing Superman after all

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              By the time heat death occurs you’ll have lived for trillions over trillions over trillions of years (10^1500 earth years if I recall correctly), probably alone because everyone died except you. Them heat death occurs, meaning no more planets, no more stars, not even black holes will be left You’ll then spend eternity in a black void with nothing.

              Fun times!

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                  Great, so I’d only need to live alone for 10^100 years (iirc) until the last red dwarf fizzles out. Totally not maddening.

                  Not being able to die sucks very quickly

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        Once you have a ton of money how do you separate true love from people who just want to be around you for your money? Look at the personal lives of billionaires. These are highly dysfunctional people.

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          True love won’t solve life’s problems either, lol. Dysfunctional people will dysfunction. I say money, so that you can afford therapy.

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          I mean, I wasn’t thinking billionaire level of money. But even if I was, you don’t have to disclose you’re a billionaire when going on a date.

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          I feel like professional match makers would be the best way. You get the personalized touch of a real person, and have an intermediary if things go bad.

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        Good choice finding love the old-fashioned way.

        Though I think there are better wishes to make than just money, it’s understandable out of the options here.

        Love is better than money, of course, but probably not from a wishing well.

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      You would think so but sometimes they can still be a pain in your ass, even if it’s true love.

      I’ll take the pile of money.

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        You’ll notice much more when there is no love in your life than when there is no money. Although it doesn’t seem to be that way, but standing at a loved ones grave really puts things into perspective.

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    Everyone in here talkin about love, superman, etc.

    Im sitting here looking at the most bizarre take on an xwing i think I’ve ever seen.

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      I find this comic weird. If the woman is his true love, then he would love her more than anything. Either the well failed at the wish or it can only make a wish that can come true at a single moment but not forever(like ending world hunger would only be solved for the moment but not in the future). Either way, I think the last panel should have the guy falling head over heels in love with her as that was the wish he had made.

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    Have philosophers managed to put together a universal best wish?

    The best thing I can think of is: true and abiding justice for all of humanity.

    I’m sure there’s a monkey’s paw in there somewhere, but I feel like it would potentially have the best outcome for as many people as possible?

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      Wish for omnipotence. Now you can do whatever you want. Now that you have that, make yourself incrementally smarter so you can better define smart each time. Become indestructible, but not like a super strong dead piece of metal like that asshole well would’ve done. Then transform the human race into a spacefaring utopian, post scarcity society where your new smartass self defines what that is. Basically become a real benevolent god.

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      So vague, what does “true” justice even mean? If I was an evil genie well, I would make you regret that wish.

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    just wish to have perfect disguises then disguise yourself as a different customer.

    if it’s a good wishing well it shall be fooled, as you asked for perfect disguise

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    “Perfect life”

    There, fixed. Whatever makes your life perfect, you get it.

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    Just saying, the loving wife he just spawned in would probably gladly use her wish on whatever he wants too.