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joystickjunki3

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The way I see it is if it already happened, then it happened and it couldn't have worked out any other way. And even if it did, we'd have to discuss some quantum physics here as to whether the result would show in our time branch or if time has only path.
 

iseko

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Never know if changing the past doesn't make everything worse. Butterfly effect man. You go back in the past and you step on a butterfly. The bird that was supposed to eat it died of hunger... yada yada yada... Everyone dies.

It could be the other way around and everything gets better but you never know.
 

MindBullets

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If it could be done reliably, possibly. But chaos theory stands in the way of it being predictable enough that I'd have confidence getting the right results from eliminating the event.
 

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That's a pretty tough question. I'm gonna have to say maybe. Would there be a life preview option. You kinda like a print preview so you look at your changes before you save them. There are a few things that have been a mixed blessing I quite honestly don't know if it would work out for the better.
 

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It can't be done. For you to go back in time to change a particular event means that event must happen. If you change the event then your future self will have no reason to go back in time and this means you never went back in time to change the event. This will cause a never ending anomaly that will implode the Earth...

No I wouldn't do it. The bad shit that has happened to me has made me a much more confident/better person.

Besides, we learn from our mistakes.
 

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Depends how much control I had over what happened instead. Plus it's a bit like WWI, changing 1 specific event is unlikely to do the trick, it probably would have happened anyway. I would have to go back in time with a magic wand to stop the whole unfortunate episode.
But, if I could at least delay it, while making sure other events that may or may not have come about due to this particular series of actions did still happen (without also being delayed), then yes, very, very much yes.
Even if I couldn't, then probably yes, curiosity would likely get the better of me, as always.
 

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I wouldn't be me so no, I am the sum of my experiences, no matter how shit they were and like myself enough to not want to change anything.
 

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darkless said:
Then your friend is a wise person i could i could go back in time for any reason what so ever i wouldn't change a single thing because those events don't only change who you are but also effect those around you you wouldn't just be changing events for yourself you would being changing the events of those closest to you as well.
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i'm not sure if i would either. iv'e done stuff i sort of regret doing but nothing that would bad enough for me to think 'i really wish i hadn't done that/that hadn't happened'. it would depend on what it was you wanted changing, say i murdered someone years ago and had the opportunity to go back and stop myself doing it, then i would. you may say 'but that made you who yo are', i'd rather not be a murderer. it's all relative.
 

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Well, that really depends, because I'd have no idea of the ramifications of my actions on the whole, rather than just the measly little scope I could process on, which would be the whole part. Although, I started a rant about this once upon a time, back before I even joined the Escapist, so I may have a strangely long-winded concept of food-for-thought, which I will try to illustrate on the barest of minimums here.

The largest issue is that I don't think I could convince myself, much less anyone else, what I was doing wasn't blatant abuse of ability. Should I ever have the power, who's to say I'd be right to use it selfishly? I could do things to prevent thousands of death on September 11th of 2001, or even go into the recent past and prevent American and British tourists from being trapped in a terrorist-hostage situation. Go further back, maybe even prevent the Holocaust, or historical massacres. In doing so, how criminally badly would I change history, or even my own life should I change something small. But I'd have no way of knowing if it was for the better, or for the worse.

In short, no, I'm fairly sure I wouldn't. My life hasn't been all sunshine and pixies, but it's certainly nothing approaching a tragic life. I was born with my entire body working, no terminal maladies or lifelong mutations. Now, most of what I have makes me define my life as a good one, despite occasional irritations.
 

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NewClassic said:
Go further back, maybe even prevent the Holocaust, or historical massacres.
At risk of being REALLY unpopular, I'm going to go a tad philosophical and suggest, that although the Holocaust was a travesty. The awful experiments and things that they did put the world years and years ahead when it came to medical research.

So, my question is; Is it right to save the lives of all those people, just to put those with horrible medical problems at risk of dieing as a result? Is it our right to choose?
 

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Cahlee said:
So, my question is; Is it right to save the lives of all those people, just to put those with horrible medical problems at risk of dieing as a result? Is it our right to choose?
Good eye. This is exactly what I was alluding to, we could prevent something, but is it within our scope to do so? Therein lies the rub. More on this when I'm not so pressed for time.
 

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MindBullets said:
If it could be done reliably, possibly. But chaos theory stands in the way of it being predictable enough that I'd have confidence getting the right results from eliminating the event.
Exactly

I've been thinking a lot about this lately. I don't like some of the things i've done, and my entire life can be described as unfortunate accident after unfortunate accident. Each one on their own would be no problem to bounce back from, but all put together... I've accepted the point that my life is at, and i have no problems with it. In fact, things are starting to look up, but I guess if there was one thing in my life that I could change, I would go back to when i was 6 months old (assuming i would go back as my age, and as a separate entity as my self of that time) and somehow stop my mom from getting in the car wreck that we were in. I ended up fine, and there was no apparent damage to her at the time, but years later she started hurting, and by now she is permanently crippled. That is the one thing that i would risk changing who i am to change.