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Originally Posted by The Colonel
Heh, bottles of djinn are older than Aladdin ... and in the original traditions, they tend to be in there for a good reason. Typically they are said to be bottled up by someone like Solomon for various crimes or tricked into the bottle by a sahir because they were being a nuisance. Letting them out could be extremely dangerous. The "wish granting genie" is several levels of bowdlerisation downstream of the original source.
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Even if they did gratefully grant wishes for being released from bottle traps, they doubtlessly would be less pleased about being unceremoniously ripped from their true home.