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no one pressed a button and wished to make enough food to feed the hungry or enough meds to cure the sick or even a clean burning source of energy. just about every single button was ME ME ME ME ME and only ME.

I think that lastdan's post qualify for such a 'non-ME' wish.

I believe that the problem here is that most of us took this as a problem in logic, not ethics (that is, we tried to 'outwit' the box or its designer). Although even obvious 'ethical' wishes need to be thorougly though out: should we wish just for cure for all diseases or go for immortality (with obvious implication of either overpopulation or stopping having children); for universal cornucopia or for a fair way to earn one (does not having to work lead to decadence, whatever one wants to mean by that) etc?

Besides, I think I would find better ways to spend a trillion or two than Bush does