Poll: If you could choose another time and place to be born...

[Barbas]

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Now you've done it...and for the last time, too - as you stare down regretfully at the crumpled, bug-eyed form of your ex-body, Death approaches and introduces himself...


He pats you reassuringly on the shoulder with an emaciated hand.

"Better luck next time, mate"

, he utters.

"Speaking of which...due to an administrative balls-up, we're doing a special today: I'll let you choose another time and place on Earth to be reborn, but with no memory of the life you've just led. Sound good? 'Course it does. Right, just say the word then...make it fast, though - I've got some cats to pick up later..."

So...what did you say? When and where did you want it...and why?
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[Elfgore]

The U.K., time period 2005-2012. From what I get, the government pays for your college tuition, the people seem nice, and I can call people wankers and twats at my leisure. My life would be pretty good. Shoudln't be all to different from my current life.

Close second would be Canada, third would be Australia.

My inner weeaboo is screaming Japan, but I'm not insane enough to heed it.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yeah, no, what about all the social progress the world has made. A few short decades ago, anyone who wasn't a straight white male was seen as inherently inferior, and this was enshrined in law. Now, we still have massive problems, but things are not nearly as horrible as they were.

Then there's the technological progress, the medicine, the internet, etc.

If a country from 100 years ago made it to today, we'd see it as horribly backwards at best, a hellhole at worst.

 

[Barbas]

(Snip).

Are you sure there are no famous figures you would like to meet? Or would you not want to be born a short while ago in a completely different country? You've already lived your entire life in this one, so is there anywhere else you want to see?

EDIT: Bear in mind, you can choose to venture into the future instead.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

(Snip).

Are you sure there are no famous figures you would like to meet? Or would you not want to be born a short while ago in a completely different country? You've already lived your entire life in this one, so is there anywhere else you want to see?

The problem with that is that there are famous figures now, and I'm not in any position to meet them. There is no reason to suppose that I would have any contact with the famous people in the period I went to, especially since I will lose my memories and therefore the knowledge that they are worth seeking out.

That is the problem with making progress as a society. It makes the idea of being sent to the past very unappealing, because life is objectively better now. Getting sent to the future is also a gamble, since you don't know what it'll be like.

Sure, the victorian era sounds like it'll be all steampunk and innovation, but then you read some Dickens or speak to your Grandparents about their Grandparents, and you find out most people where lucky to have shoes even in the richest nations.

I'd go for the future. Sure it could be a radioactive apocalypse, but you never know, it might be awesome.

 

[Eamar]

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My thoughts exactly. There are plenty of bits of the past I'd like to visit should time travel tourism ever become a thing, but to live? Hell no.

Future all the way, baby.

 

[JoJo]

Another 'later' here. The past has some cool aspects, at any time really, but none of them strike me as the perfect place to live, at-least if I pick the future then I have a chance of striking gold. I also have the chance of getting born in a smoking nuclear wasteland or a dystopia but you've got to take some risks in life right? Or death, in this case. Doesn't really matter, if my memory is being wiped then them I'm effectively dead anyway.

 

[Esotera]

The U.K., time period 2005-2012. From what I get, the government pays for your college tuition, the people seem nice, and I can call people wankers and twats at my leisure. My life would be pretty good. Shoudln't be all to different from my current life.

Close second would be Canada, third would be Australia.

My inner weeaboo is screaming Japan, but I'm not insane enough to heed it.

Tuition fees were £3000 per year in that time period just so you know, although that's nothing compared to the US system.

OT: I'd pick later, probably about a century or two into the future. If we're still around by then, I'd get to live through an era of space exploration and hopefully renewable energy. If we're not, then I don't particularly want to live in any other time.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Not too sure, it most likely to be in the past when it was more simplier at the cost of the technologies being primative. That is as long it isn't during either the plague, 1st recession or any of the two world wars or wars in general.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Is there any chance of myself being reborn on a starship, space station, or some kind of sweet moonbase in the past or present?

No?

Then clearly 'Later' is the correct answer here.

 

[Angelous Wang]

Is there any chance of myself being reborn on a starship, space station, or some kind of sweet moonbase in the past or present?

No?

Then clearly 'Later' is the correct answer here.

This.

When I can have a starship, a energy weapon and be space pirate. That is when I wanted to be born.

The present is far too damn early.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I wouldn't. Everything used to be more racist, more sexist and less hygienic. Why go back?

 

[krazykidd]

Ohh can i be born in the 90s as a white male in the US? Man how great it would be to have all the opportunities at my fingertips , without any pressure from society!

... Speaking of which , why haven't we invented a way to change someones skin color yet? While i'm sure it would get the same reaction as the mutant cure from X-men 3, it would be nice to have the option...

 

[Phrozenflame500]

The future. You don't specify we need to go *back* in time.

Anytime in the past is more shitty then the time we're currently in, I'd probably go 100 years in the future or so. Maybe even later depending on how I feel at the moment.

 

[AnarchistFish]

in the future sometime when we all live to 500 and live in cloud cities above mars

The U.K., time period 2005-2012. From what I get, the government pays for your college tuition

Only partly

the people seem nice,

depends

and I can call people wankers and twats at my leisure.

within reason

My life would be pretty good.

recession though

 

[shootthebandit]

Id like to go to america hundreds of years ago before it was colonised by fucking morons. Either that or pretty much any jungle tribe

heres a good quote (pretty sure its bullshit butthe sentiment is good):

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We have far too much shit going on today. It would be so nice to live in a society where you just eat, sleep and spend the rest of your time just chilling the fuck out in your little hut. You call that uncivilised then you clearly dont know the meaning of the word

 

[Barbas]

I wouldn't. Everything used to be more racist, more sexist and less hygienic. Why go back?

You don't have to, you can go forward instead - the time doesn't have to exist yet. Alternatively, you can choose to move very little in terms of time, but much farther geographically. Ever wanted to see Switzerland, for instance?