Once you start seriously entertaining the idea of depopulating an entire ethnicity, that's when you need to take a step back and take a serious look at your priorities.
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Redlin5 said:
Well on a purely practical level, the fuel would cost less, you being rather close to us. Also, you've never had a major war with us (1812 didn't count, we all know that)or anything like that, so the point was that even a nation that didn't have any giant, game changing events in regards to us would still dramatically change the present if it was wiped from history.
Canada's cool though. In a literal and figurative manner. You got Anvil and Annihilator, and I don't want to lose them.
Don't forget Deadpool or Wolverine either.Ironic Pirate said:
*picks up hockey stick and leaves thread*
The only reason Wolverine is still around is his Canadian-ness, actually. The X-Men were gonna kill off a character, and the only reason Wolverine wasn't picked for death was because the person choosing was Canadian. Thanks, Cracked.Redlin5 said:
No, and if you think such a weapon ought to be used, I think you're a terrible human being.
Everyone deserves the right to fight back... And no-one deserves to be forgotten.
Everyone deserves the right to fight back... And no-one deserves to be forgotten.
We're talking about genocide, granted it's not for eugenic reasons but damn it, it's still genocide so no...I'd demand nothing less than peace and co-operation between us.
To everyone who tries dodging the question by arguing the paradox-proof nature of the device, it's quite simple to explain. If you've got technology (even if build by someone else) that can utilize time-transcending destruction, I'm sure it also has the capacity to hold your own city in a "causality bubble" free from the effects of the weapon. What it would need to do is isolate your own civilization from the changing time-stream. To illustrate:
Reality A: Culture E and Culture G progress normally. Culture E eventually wages war on Culture G. Culture G activates "time-nuke". The "Reality A" progression of Culture G's culture is isolated while Culture E's civilization is retroactively eradicated, leading us to Reality B.
Reality B: Culture E never existed and what Culture G would have become without Culture E also never exists because Culture G from Reality A is super-imposed into Reality B. To preserve the millions dead in the war, the causality bubble protection is measured to "stop" just before the beginning of the war, meaning that Reality A's Culture G is preserved at the expense of Reality A's Culture E (aborted reality), Reality B's Culture E (eradicated from history), and Reality B's Culture G (overwritten with Reality A's Culture G).
It's usually said that the victors get to write the history... but in this case, writing history is what makes you the victor.
Reality A: Culture E and Culture G progress normally. Culture E eventually wages war on Culture G. Culture G activates "time-nuke". The "Reality A" progression of Culture G's culture is isolated while Culture E's civilization is retroactively eradicated, leading us to Reality B.
Reality B: Culture E never existed and what Culture G would have become without Culture E also never exists because Culture G from Reality A is super-imposed into Reality B. To preserve the millions dead in the war, the causality bubble protection is measured to "stop" just before the beginning of the war, meaning that Reality A's Culture G is preserved at the expense of Reality A's Culture E (aborted reality), Reality B's Culture E (eradicated from history), and Reality B's Culture G (overwritten with Reality A's Culture G).
It's usually said that the victors get to write the history... but in this case, writing history is what makes you the victor.
Wow that sounds profound but it actually means nothing. Anyway no I wouldn't use it.PettingZOOPONY said: