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How would society change if anyone could spawn any living being? This includes humans, animals, and even bacteria. By just thinking it, someone can make a lion appear. How would this go down/how would society continue?

Edit: When they spawn this animal, it will stay and act like a normal animal. This magic will start working now, with all the technology we have now.

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  • $\begingroup$ Welcome to worldbuilding! Unfortunately the nature of questions "how would the world change" are too broad as a rule. There's too many variables to account for. Social, cultural, religion, economics, research done or not done and more. That is why I Vote To Close (VTC). Please don't hesitate to ask further questions or edit this one to glhave a smaller scope. Also check out the tour and the help center if you want to learn more. $\endgroup$
    – Trioxidane
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 16:24
  • $\begingroup$ I appreciate the kind feedback. i will edit it rn $\endgroup$
    – yogazefish
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 16:33
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    $\begingroup$ Coupd you make it even more focused? Like from what moment does it appear, what technology is available, would the creatures disappear or whatever? $\endgroup$
    – Trioxidane
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 16:43
  • $\begingroup$ @Trioxidane as you wish $\endgroup$
    – yogazefish
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 17:09
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    $\begingroup$ Ow. A neighbor broke up with their girlfriend/boyfriend last week. One of the spawned a massive beehive. They're both dead now, but the bees are still everywhere. $\endgroup$
    – user535733
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 17:17

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Society will collapse

However you slice it, Society will collapse. We can compare it to the mice utopia. We can spawn food in any form we like, but also fuel. Many bacteria can conceivably be used as such. We don't need to go out to survive anymore. This is where it'll start to collapse.

Our current Society has some failsafe against this. Currently we do have enough food to serve the world several times over. Economics and waste cause a part to still get hungry. The failsafe is all us need to work to get our food on the table and heat in our home, as well as some technological comforts. However, we do see a part of the mice utopia throughout mostly the western world. Although I cannot speak of cannibalism, we do see people getting sexual deviations, only focusing on being pretty, stopping with reproduction or parenting duties and antisocial behaviour. Although this isn't fully because of our abundance, the truth is that we have enough time and resources to expand on these nonstandard behaviours.

With spawning any living creatures by willful thought, you've given us the ability to both sustain and destroy us.

As in the intro, we will have an abundance of resources. Meat from even extinct creatures is available. We can repopulate the world with these creatures and might even bring back little Timmy from the dead. How wonderful.

But what does life matter then? If you can bring Timmy back from the dead, why not two?

I can imagine bringing little Timmy back is a step to far. Maybe you can just get "generic human child" or the like. So how long until hormonal teenagers start spawning naked humans to try to copulate with? Or maybe don't realise the danger of spawning a cool tiger? What will happen with their view of life if you can have animals or humans fight each other to the death, as you can always spawn more?

The abundance will already make us go crazy from the crazy possibilities that let us go far from our normal behaviours that protected us. Abundance and possibilities will kill us.

But what will happen if someone will start something dangerous? All the creatures spawned, or even humans, might get too much. Maybe they think of some nice ebola and other plagues to clean it up. Maybe someone doesn't like someone else and gives out a brain parasite? It takes only a few thoughts before someone thinks of the horrible diseases that are locked up at disease research labs around the world. Flu viruses that are a thousand times more contagious practically always deadly.

After 99% of the world is dead, will we spawn more humans to fill the gap again? Socially, it's just a big ruin.

There's a lot more perspectives to still look at, but in general it's too much abundance and power for people to have.

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  • $\begingroup$ While I don't agree with all your points, I do agree that the result will be utter chaos, if not total destruction of all life on the planet. +1 $\endgroup$
    – mwarren
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 17:21
  • $\begingroup$ @Demigan please don't call me dog. I fixed the link though :) $\endgroup$
    – Trioxidane
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 17:30
  • $\begingroup$ @YosefZaghi as Demigan says, we often ask for at least 24h of waiting to choose the answer. This is to give others a chance to answer the question, possibly giving deeper insights, better answers or opposing statements. $\endgroup$
    – Trioxidane
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 17:33
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    $\begingroup$ As for diseases, I think people might be too afraid of getting sick themselves. Spawning a Hippo next to your target though? Unlike a Tiger a Hippo does not need to be hungry to eviscerate and crush a human standing too close. Ofcourse this would naturally mean people might try to protect themselves in an escalating series of events: you spawn a hippo? Spawn something that might prey on the Hippo or fight it, like an Elephant or a swarm of hungry locusts. Without control over that someone else might spawn something, and then they spawn something against that... it gets busy real quick. $\endgroup$
    – Demigan
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 17:35
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    $\begingroup$ Why did you vote to close and also answered the question? $\endgroup$
    – L.Dutch ♦
    Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 17:51

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