Birthday Wish makes no sense (among other things)

First of all, why would 'someone' (who?) grant THAT wish out of ALL of the wishes on the planet that must've been going on for thousands of years, including world peace, removal of injustice and unfairness, pollution, murders, wars, crime and so on?

Why a SELFISh wish?

Secondly, the kid never (EVER!) specifies parameters. Why not? The wish is simplistic enough, but he does say 'TELL' a lie, not 'GESTURE' a lie, or 'Ask a question when you know the answer is a lie'. Why are so many non-specified things included in the 'granting of the wish', WHO decided what to include, what not to, and how it's all done?

Also, 'not being able to tell A lie' leaves so many loopholes and questions - it ALSO doesn't mean 'you have to tell the truth' (even though it's LATER worded like this, stupidly) - for example, he should be able to tell a BUNCH of lies, but not just "A" lie, he should be able to WRITE lies, he should be able to tell things he thinks are true or probably true, even when they are NOT true, or that he doesn't exactly even know anything (much) about, and so on.

Why does Max not specify anything ever? Why grant a wish to a KID, when they never know what they want anyway (kids are stupid)? What I mean is, Max could SO EASILY just add 'TO ME' to the end, and he would still get 100% what he wants without complicating HIS life.

I think the only reason we're shown Fletcher to be a bit of a jerk, is so we feel it's completely right to tamper with his FREE WILL (watch some other Jim Carrey movies to see this possibility suddenly revoked from the ALMIGHTY being, so the wish-granter in this movie is more almighty than GOD in the other movie!) just to grant a young kid's selfish wish.

Rrright. But it's NOT right to make weapons stop working in a war, where someone is trying to murder someone? It's not right to sabotage a drone's guidance systems so they can't bomb innocent kids to pieces? Max just HAS to have his selfish, FORCIBLY personality-altering wish for his father to be granted instead.

Think how different things would be if this kid had the decency to at least SPECIFY his wish - why would he even wish he can't tell 'A LIE', when he REALLY just wanted 'Fletcher to stop lying to Max' - which he STILL did do after the wish had been granted, by the way.. he mentioned future as a fact, although he has no control of the future, only of this moment. Instead of saying 'I PLAN to lovingly bubble-wrap your knick-knacks', he tells a lie, because it's a promise of a future.

A promise of a future is always a lie.

Also, why is Fletcher allowed to lie by GESTURE, but not by writing, asking or speaking? (He didn't even try TYPING, though, for some reason!)

He also could've told the truth and still said 'I don't feel like I can proceed', because he TRULY does _FEEL_ - maybe not physically, but mentally and 'legally' - that he CAN'T proceed, because he can't lie. He truly feels this is an enormous hinderance, rendering his ability to do his job nil.

Yet he says 'Yes, I can', although the Judge forms TWO separate questions - one is about his feeling, then he suddenly asks about his ability. He COULD have answered the one about his feeling and been completely truthful, or answered about his ASSESMENT about his ability to proceed (he does feel/think that he CAN'T fully proceed due to not being able to lie, which he considers core of his lawyering skill).

This movie is full of nonsensical things like this, which is a pity, because it's the funniest movie ever made, and Jim Carrey's performance is absolutely brilliant.