I think the message is more of the unintended consequences of our sometimes whimsical actions. Like he wants his father to have been around while he was a kid, but then things wouldn't have necessarily been the same in the present if there was a different past. That's what I get from the part after his third wish, specially when the "Genie said I'm sorry, But that's the way it goes." It's like he has lost something from the present after making wishes about the past.
Same view describes the gas bottle story that is being told in the background too.
I think the message is more of the unintended consequences of our sometimes whimsical actions. Like he wants his father to have been around while he was a kid, but then things wouldn't have necessarily been the same in the present if there was a different past. That's what I get from the part after his third wish, specially when the "Genie said I'm sorry, But that's the way it goes." It's like he has lost something from the present after making wishes about the past. Same view describes the gas bottle story that is being told in the background too.