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Re: Three Wishes
Posted By: Paul A., on host 130.95.128.6
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000, at 18:22:15
In Reply To: Re: Three Wishes posted by Brunnen-G on Tuesday, May 16, 2000, at 04:08:03:

> > Anyone else have a good wish?
>
> Strange. If it was *seriously* an option, I don't really think there's anything I
> would wish for. That doesn't mean my life is perfect, far from it, but I just
> would feel sort of weird and immoral about getting solutions to my problems
> handed to me for nothing. It would be *nice*, but I wouldn't feel right about
> wishing for it. Or praying for it, or anything else that means you don't have to
> go out and fight for it yourself.

There's a story by Orson Scott Card, in which a woman gets a wish from a dragon, but decides to save it for an emergency. And every time an emergency comes up, she decides to do whatever she can by herself first - after all, she can always use the wish if she needs it, and if she doesn't she'll still have it when a *real* emergency comes along.
And when she's on her aged death bed many decades later, with a great reputation in the region, she still hasn't used the wish.