How would you, as God, go about fixing the Earth?

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Make everyone tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about everything for a few years. Get rid of all secrecy for anything important.
The resulting slaughter would be unpleasant, but after the cleanup the word could start anew
 
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Gotta love how any time there's a thread like this most answers are totally original "kill tons of people, typically from groups I don't like."

As for myself... personally I would have magical beings take over all the world's governments, but also set up a difficult-but-not-insurmountable way these beings could be killed, and I would put hints in various media as to what these methods are.

Basically, it would be up to the people to decide if they like this, and if they don't, they know what they can do about it.

As for what these beings would be like.... well, since this is my post, I like to imagine the beings as being genuinely well-meaning, and having powers that would be helpful (for example, teleportation and mind-reading so that they can prevent crime and also prevent miscarriages of justice), and completely lacking any sort of self-interest so that they can't be corrupted the way humanity can.

I've brought up a concept like this before though, and the thing that sucks is that no matter how I describe it, people just ignore it and act like I'm describing the final boss of a JRPG even if they're nothing like what I described. Because some people just can't think outside the box.
 
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Such an interesting question, because now I have to decide if I want to continue with this type of existence, or completely change it.

I'll just have a really long vacation in my own world, the only one, free from disgusting creatures and nonsense. That's what I would do, I might create a good/decent/near perfect friend to play sports/games with. :waifu:

But assuming I wanted to "fix the Earth/humanity" without touching anything else, it would have to be a monumental change. Just due to human anatomy & available resources, cruelty, pain and sadness would be deeply rooted in what means to be alive.

Without going overboard and making it a literal heaven (because that's an easy answer), I'd increase empathy levels in creatures to a maximum degree, I'd fix the atrocious results of evolution (making bodies naturally strong and not prone to disease, malformations, extreme senescence, senses deterioration, etc), and I'd give to the planet near miraculous alchemical structures for prosperity (e.g: special plants that regenerate and don't die, easy to grow, that take matter and efficiently transform in fully nutritious fruits of all tastes and variations, appealing to all lifeforms (and including microscopic food), with near perfect nutritional value). I'd make outer-space less hostile, or at least planet Earth more resistant and the sun far less volatile.
On top of it, I'd give humans actual critical thinking.

This situation would heavily encourage humans (due to extreme empathy) help each other out, critical thinking to most likely behave logically & altruistically (because of the previous), and because of the resources, no great incentive to screw each other up, which would already be difficult due to what I mentioned. On the few instances of criminal & heinous activity, it would be heavily but appropriately punished, as being altruistic for the right cause does not mean being a soft, placating, exploitable weakling.

So in essence intelligence, empathy, strength/health, and resources for a big step in the right direction.
 
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Like this. Without sudden disappearing part.

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I would give the Elephants dominion over the Earth and Orca whales dominion of the seas. Both would get telepathy and laser eyes. The elephants will trample the jeets while the orcas sink the parasite boats.
 
I would change nothing. I am pleased with my creation. So pleased that I would incarnate as an ordinary human being and walk among my creation as a journeyman or a truck driver. Occasionally, over beers, someone would recognise that they are speaking to God and it will bring joy and wonder to their mind. And that would please me.
 
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a few steps


1. get rid of all the brownoids
2. bring back kissinger and return him as my messiah
3. increase avg IQ of the survivors to 300, remove myostatin, give em telekinetic powers, add an extra pair of arms that can also act as legs, massively increase sexual dimorphism like in the ither apes, add a sagwittal crest and sharp canines, increase bite force to 4000psi
4. do the occasional divine intervention if something goes wrong
 
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