What if you were supreme ruler of the world?

[AndyC]

Got this idea from the thread in Weird News Stories, about educating junkies on how to shoot up safely. I suggested that if I were supreme dictator, I'd be a little more concerned about their wellbeing, and less about their rights.

So, if you could impose your will on the population, what ruthless things would you do for the public's own good? This is not intended to advocate this kind of government, merely to ponder what might be possible if any of us were in a position where there was no higher authority and our word was law.

One that I've said a couple of times while listening to the news or watching a crime show on TV, is that if it were up to me, child pornographers would get a bullet in the back of the head on the spot. Just to clarify, I can see the problems in implementing that, and I don't think I'm ruthless enough to make such a decree if I could, but there is a certain satisfaction in contemplating it. And that's what this exercise is about.

[lester1/2jr]

well, if you've ever seen bedazzled you know that things like this are frought with unforseen difficulties.  in the new testament, jesus rejected the devils attempts to give him power over the world because the whole nature of christianity is for people to accept on their own salvation not ....  
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but really, most of my edicts would be driving related and very brutal.

[The Burgomaster]

I'd sit around in my underwear like a lazy slob, watching movies and eating snacks.

Hey, wait a minute, that's what I do NOW.

[Psycho Circus]

I'd nuke the entire planet.

[Leah]

I'd nuke the entire planet.

with clown gas 

[3mnkids]

I'd make hypocrisy punishable by death.    

[Leah]

have world PEACE!

[Sister Grace]

I would like to think i would spend all my time and effort into humanitarian projects. However; the more likely scenario would be the next Caligula.

[Javakoala]

I would like to think i would spend all my time and effort into humanitarian projects. However; the more likely scenario would be the next Caligula.

Okay. NOW you are starting to frighten me.  A little.

[JaseSF]

Be harder on crime and those who commit crimes.

Try and bring back manners and respect.

[meQal]

All you can eat buffalo wings, naked Wednesdays, speedos banned from being sold to any guy who is as big as I am, reality TV shows banned, and people who appeared on reality TV shot.

[Paquita]

I would start by fining anyone that put out Christmas lights (or any holiday lights) that blink out of sync with the rest of the lights.

Order the Keebler Elves to start cranking out Magic Middles again.

[AndyC]

Traffic cops inside shopping malls from Nov. 1 to Jan. 2 every year, holding shoppers on foot to the same standard as cars on the road.

[indianasmith]

I would -

- eliminate the poor to stimulate the economy.
- ban all workplaces from holding more than one meeting a week.
- limit all meetings to 30 minutes
- make Anne Hathaway my chief concubine.
- establish a playoff system for college football.

[SPazzo]

Honestly, I'd probably start some law that said people over a certain income would have to donate a certain amount of money to charity.  I would probably also start that charity, and make sure it actually did what it said with that money.  WOuld that would be, I don't know.

It's a tough question.  I know for sure that I would make sure Hollywood does NOT release any more Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Harry Potter films.   (OK, maybe they could just finish the Harry Potter series, but definitely no more Transformers.)