ledboots
Peace
Only those of us who come from the future.I like that people are pretending to know how time travel works....
Only those of us who come from the future.I like that people are pretending to know how time travel works....
Underlined: Yes.
Bolded: No.
Though I suppose it's a futile point to argue, considering we're never going to do it anyway.
As for changing other things, like Hitler, you can't know what ramifications you're decisions would make. Maybe someone worse would come along...
Highly unlikely.
Says who?
Says history. It's very rare if not impossible, to find a "worse" leader than Hitler.
So we can sit here and speculate about what we should have done, and what might have happened, and be stuck in our own heads; or we could get out there and educate people, help people, make sure things like this don't have the vehicle to happen again. I think that's far, far more important than "let's kill Hitler" scenario games.
No, what bothers me is people who don't think critically about their actions (or in this case, actions they could take if time travel were possible - which it's not). People who think Bad Must Be Stopped - but stop there. I agree that terrible things need to be stopped, but I also know that I am not smart enough to know the consequences that me time traveling would have. I'm not necessarily worried about the aborted timelines of babies that would never be born because Hitler's WWII would never have happened*. I'm worried about much more terrible things that could have happened due to my intervention. And as you yourself demonstrate, people cannot concieve of someone like Hitler ever being born, either before or after. But genocide has happened before Hitler, and it's happened as recently as the massacre of 800,000 Hutu's and Tutsi's in the 90's.
And if I'm not smart enough to forsee what consequences my actions have, neither does anybody else in this thread. (I kid, I kid )
*I say Hitler's WWII, because it's quite likely another WWII would have occurred without Hitler, who knows if it would have been better or worse in terms of lives lost.
Highly unlikely.
Yes, if I could change highly negative things in the past, I would. Who cares if "family lines" are changed. People who aren't born will never know it, and if I can prevent something like the Holocaust, of course I will, and take a chance on something else (highly unlikely something worse will happen).
It's always Hitler. Never Stalin or Mao. Why is that?
Well I think if you could change the past you could change the future ....what a mess that would be .
Although I read somewhere ,this lady said she could see her future incarnations and changed her will and left her estate to someone who was not yet born, who in her mind was going to be her reincarnated .
Plenty wanted to knock Hitler off .There were 42 attempts , mainly by his own country men and in the end he topped himself , the irony of it .
From my personal observation living with regrets of the past and worrying about the future is meaningless and wasted energy .