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Every country has their megalomaniacs; but what if little old you had the power to change how things are done?

A Sydney Morning Herald blog posed the following scenario and got back some creative reader feedback.

The blog says, “We hereby appoint you Ruler of the World. For the next seven days, you have carte blanche to make the world a better place – or just more to your liking.

“Would you chain all the world’s men in small, dank basements and only allow them to be used for procreation?

“Or perhaps you’d prefer to melt all the world’s guns down, and use the leftover materials to make one big gun to blow-up the people who made the weapons in the first place?”

Here’s a few of the humorous, indulgent and earnest answers…

1. Three-day weekends.
2. I’d test fire rockets across the Tasman Sea – this demonstration of aggression will keep the Kiwis in check.
3. Send everyone who believes in 9/11 conspiracy theories to get a full-frontal lobotomy.
4. Australia to win World Cup 2010…
5. It shall be illegal on pain of excommunication from the world to discuss, write about, comment on, report about, broadcast, photograph, film, sculpt, illustrate, make a likeness of, advertise, create, promote, sell, exploit, cause to exist, live as, or present oneself or any person, animal or entity, as a celebrity.
6. Disarm all rapists, announce that sex is not a sin if you do it correctly, contraception is not a sin, but unwanted conception is, it’s okay to be gay, with 6 billion of you monkeys a couple of gay people is hardly going to lead to extinction…
7. I would confiscate and redistribute all investment properties. Houses are for living in…
8. I would also attempt to deal with the obesity epidemic by having strict portion control in public food outlets, with restaurant staff given the power to refuse food to those who have eaten enough already. Fatty and sugary food would have disgusting pictorial health warnings like cigarette packets…
9. I would include introducing legislation to require (a) all politicians to use public transport for one month out of every year and (2) requiring that politicians’ children be enrolled in the zoned school assigned to the area in which they live.
10. Allow performance enhancing drugs and surgical enhancement in sport. Can you imagine the possibilities?
11. I would make it so every human being experiences the pain they inflict on others (whether by their actions or inaction).

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