With regards to the early question, I feel like my first action would be to hire a lawyer. Or an intern. Or something.
I feel like most of the people (Loud Whispers excluded) here forget that you have to
prove that your cure
actually cures cancer before anyone believes a word out of your damn mouth. Anyone (and everyone) who claims they have cures for cancer get ignored. You shout that out loud, you're basically guaranteeing that people will never believe you. I mean what is to distinguish you from literally every other crazy in existence? And what would your story be? "Oh, I just found it somewhere". Yeah, sure random people find miracle cures all the time. People would ignore you straight up. It's not easy even to get so famous as to even get invited to some medical lab to get proven false. I mean if someone walks up to
you and claims they've got the cure for cancer and want to cure your sick kid, you don't trust this fucker one bit. And as for publishing it on the internet, how useful is that? At best it's relatively simple to cook up, but then you are just relying on people sick with cancer making some spooky looking concoction that some half-ass image set on imgur is telling them works. And even if they do it, there's no guarantee they tell people about it. And if it's
not very easy to make, you are depending on some medical student somewhere someday deciding to cook up a random recipe on the internet. Yeah. Bad idea. So bloody G-Men coming in and abducting you should be the bottom of your worry list until at least one other human being believes you.
3 doesn't appeal to me. What of the many benefits of cultural diversity?
Presumably the magic genocide box maintains the diversity, just gets rid of the tension and borders and similar such messes. All the benefits of cultural diversity without the xenophobia and murder.
This
It's kinda funny to say "Oh yeah it preserves diversity without bloodshed and is great and all" while at the same time killing 2.3 Billion people.
Why do people assume that the magic-murder-genie-box people have our best interests at heart? I mean seriously.
Here's a new hypothetical:
You have a briefcase. It appeared on your bed(or equivalent) this morning, out of nowhere. In the briefcase are 5 vials, a million dollars, and a note.
The note explains that you've been chosen to prepare humanity for the impending apocalypse. In 5 years, an alien invasion will begin. You're expected to mobilize and unite humanity to be as ready as possible for this threat, the nature of which is currently unknown to you.
The note also explains that the vials grant psionic powers to anybody that drinks one, drinking a second will temporarily supercharge one's powers to the point of being a one-man army, but a third will be lethal.
What do?
Ideally? Take over the world. Barring that? Use it to convince certain world leaders (or potential world leaders, who could be world leaders if given phenomenal power) to obey my will long enough to worry about da aliums. Five years isn't a lot of time though. It'll take five years at least to thoroughly cement my grasp on power, and buildup, itself, would take much longer. Hmm. Five years is a short period of time. In the interests of time, I'd develop my abilities to allow me to subliminally message large sections of the population; which I will use to whip them into an angry frenzy demanding more militarization and fear of aliens (if people without psychic powers can do this, surely a psychic person has the power to kick it into overdrive). No matter what I'd ideally like to keep one vial for research purposes.
Failing all this, pull a Watchman.