• ramble81
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    8 months ago

    Genies are not considered humans and thus cannot enter into a legal agreement. Courts find your contract null and void and the Genie still gets always with screwing up your wish.

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      8 months ago

      If my wish is for the genie to abide by the contract, then the thing holding him accountable is his own magic, not a human or court. The lawyers aren’t there to follow the law, they’re there to see that the contract is logistically sound.

      If a genie cannot be beholden to his own magic, then there’s really no point in expecting any kind of wish to be free of a curse anyway because he’s just going to do whatever he wants regardless of what you wish for.

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        8 months ago

        because he’s just going to do whatever he wants regardless of what you wish for.

        ding, ding ding and there in lies the inherent issue with genies. People only think they’re doing what you wish. Their goal is to creatively screw you over.

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          I mean sure, but assuming that he doesn’t have to abide by the wish in question in any way pretty much voids the point of this entire post right?

          At this point in the argument, on your logic, the post itself might as well be “Make a wish, it doesn’t matter what. A malevolent genie is going to arbitrarily screw you”

          So then what’s the point?

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            8 months ago

            This is a fascinating world building question. Genies are supposed to be magical, extremely powerful beings, but they only become interesting when bound by rules - either set by the limitations of the world, or of their magic.

            A “fuck you I do what I want” genie isn’t interesting because there’s nothing to figure out in the context of the world the genie inhabits. And that world’s context and structure ultimately dictates what makes sense to an audience, and what seems jarring or out of place.

            The way a genie fulfills wishes and how it tries to worm out of it can tell you much of the fictional world it inhabits!

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              This is exactly my point. The genie, and by extension this post, isn’t interesting unless the genie is bound by his own magic somehow. So why assume he is not?