Genie is looking at you like this because it’s weird watching only the right half of a human form sentences without issues. It’s also weird that the person didn’t seem fazed by the removal of their left half.
It’s more existentially terrifying if the wish operates differently. Instead of adjusting reality to make your words true, it simply constrains you to only be able to speak true and correct statements. So when you try and speak, “no, I have three wishes left,” what comes out is “I have two wishes left.”
In particularly powerful forms, this wish could be used to solve metaphysical and existential questions. You literally can only speak the Truth. Want to know the day you die? Pick a random date and try to say, “I will die on ____ from ____.” Your actual date and cause of death will come out instead.
I mean, I get what you are saying, but also like every other comment is talking about how the wish goes wrong by not letting you speak something that isn’t true and I just wanted to explore other ways the genie could “monkey’s paw” the wish. ie removing the wisher’s left half. “They’ll be all right.”
Genie is looking at you like this because it’s weird watching only the right half of a human form sentences without issues. It’s also weird that the person didn’t seem fazed by the removal of their left half.
It’s more existentially terrifying if the wish operates differently. Instead of adjusting reality to make your words true, it simply constrains you to only be able to speak true and correct statements. So when you try and speak, “no, I have three wishes left,” what comes out is “I have two wishes left.”
In particularly powerful forms, this wish could be used to solve metaphysical and existential questions. You literally can only speak the Truth. Want to know the day you die? Pick a random date and try to say, “I will die on ____ from ____.” Your actual date and cause of death will come out instead.
I mean, I get what you are saying, but also like every other comment is talking about how the wish goes wrong by not letting you speak something that isn’t true and I just wanted to explore other ways the genie could “monkey’s paw” the wish. ie removing the wisher’s left half. “They’ll be all right.”
That or he started with 4 wishes