Poll: If you could go back in time and kill one person who would it be?

[Kellerb]

Mogabe. i would go back in time like, 10 minutes

because the horrific things hes done in zimbabwe (legalizing raping for his higher officers is one of the NICER things hes done)

fire. lots of fire.

 

[quack35]

kill anyone and you are likely to cease existing

Pretty much, so I'm gonna go with "No" on this question.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

Unless of course I was the original assassin and accidentally caused a paradox anyway.

So, you'd already killed someone, so you went back in time to do it again?

I'd have to do quite a bit of research into the persons death.

I like how you're thinking this out.

 

[Agrivarr]

1. Perez and Paris Hilton.
2. You need to ask?
3. Slow and messy. It would involve various gardening and kitchen utensils.

 

[SpikeyGirl]

Unless of course I was the original assassin and accidentally caused a paradox anyway.

So, you'd already killed someone, so you went back in time to do it again?

Yeah, kill the same person twice, who can say they've done that? Only then paradox's appear and the world gets screwed up. My bad.

I'd have to do quite a bit of research into the persons death.

I like how you're thinking this out.

What can I say, summer holidays = to much time on my hands.

 

[queensbomb]

Remember the original ending to Butterfly Effect?

Do they show the original ending on FX? If not, please explain.

OT: This^, The hell if I want to keep going back in time to make things "right". It seems tedious.

 

[dontworryaboutit]

Snake is dead.

TIME PARADOX

 

[A random person]

Well preferably

Hitler

/thread

I believe there are rules against that in place [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlekz83hawz?from=Main.HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct].

But on topic, no one. It would either cause catastrophic events or do nothing. Time travel's a finicky thing indeed.

 

[rs2000]

This is a huge hypothetical situation and I doubt many people think about it.
If you could go back in time and kill someone, whoever you want, with no consequences.

So what'll it be?

If you would kill someone:

1. Who would you kill?

2. Why would you kill them?

3. Which way would you like them to die?

If you decided you don't want to kill them:

What is your reason for not killing anyone?

Also, you cannot be killed while you are back in time and you basically have the powers of a god.

What would you do, Escapist?

It would have to be Christopher Columbus & the crews on his ship (by default)Sink their ships & any surviving crew. If the Americas wern't discoverd then europe wouldn't have had the insane race to the new world & the sensless slaughter of it's native inhabbitants.

Just think no Cortes, no founding fathers the whole history of the world would be changed!

 

[hopeneverdies]

Could I just murder the people from BrokenCYDE and Millionaires as babies so the Ranty Reviewer won't have to torture himself, preferably by falling off the edge of the Grand Canyon

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

I'd go back and kill Hitler but I'd do it just before he killed himself.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I really, really don't want to create a time paradox.

 

[Hellenion]

1.) Jesus.
2.) Christianity killed Greek philosophy, Greek scientific theory, Greco-Roman culture, and IMO aided the downfall of the Roman Empire. Enter about 900 years of superstitious faith-mongering and living in squalid conditions, with the occasional troupe of people heading east to commit some mass murder. Then, after all that ended, the persecution and religious wars began. Only since the nineteenth century has Christianity receded into the background as an instigator of violence and misery, and then only because it was replaced with ideals like nationalism, socialism and, later, national socialism. No Christianity = much, much less religious violence. (Please direct any discussion on this topic to PMs, let's not clutter up this thread, ok?)
3.) Quickly and without any witnesses, preferably before he got a messiah complex. Maybe drop a rock on his head or something.

Not going into too much of a debate, agreed. Preferaqbly I'd kill him at birth. He'd just be another corpse in Heron's massacre.

Edit:

On reflection, the Roman paganistical religions caused suffering on a daily basis, but you tended to know if you were to be sacrificed or not. Christianity has caused, amongst other things, the Holocaust.

Really, to alleviate all suffering caused by the Abrahamic religionbs, you'd have to go and find Abraham, or trace whoever first proposed the idea of the Abrahamic God. And, in that respect, I think that there was not simply one person. It was a movement.

Hellenion.

(Why does the "Quote" button suddenly work for me?)

 

[Lordpils]

1. Who would you kill? Myself, five seconds before going back in time.

2. Why would you kill them? For the specific purpose of creating a paradox.

3. Which way would you like them to die? In a rather unexpected and random manner.

 

[grimsprice]

1.) Jesus.
2.) Christianity killed Greek philosophy, Greek scientific theory, Greco-Roman culture, and IMO aided the downfall of the Roman Empire. Enter about 900 years of superstitious faith-mongering and living in squalid conditions, with the occasional troupe of people heading east to commit some mass murder. Then, after all that ended, the persecution and religious wars began. Only since the nineteenth century has Christianity receded into the background as an instigator of violence and misery, and then only because it was replaced with ideals like nationalism, socialism and, later, national socialism. No Christianity = much, much less religious violence. (Please direct any discussion on this topic to PMs, let's not clutter up this thread, ok?)
3.) Quickly and without any witnesses, preferably before he got a messiah complex. Maybe drop a rock on his head or something.

oh shit. dude. you need a flame shield if anyone in the history of anything ever needed one...
bad move...

OT i'd only go back a few years and kill some dudes i've heard about.. ruined peoples lives they did...

 

[Lord Of Cyberia]

I would go FORWARD in time, steal a time machine, then go back and kill whoever invented it. Then reality would collapse

 

[G1eet]

Everyone on The Mayflower If not the people who discovered America anyway.

Good luck killing vikings, even with your superior firepower.

Not to mention any other dudes that made it there but aren't written into the history books.

 

[Hellenion]

I would go FORWARD in time, steal a time machine, then go back and kill whoever invented it. Then reality would collapse

Are you describing an ontological paradox? It could work, if the machine you stole in the future was the one you left behind after killing the inventor. Then it would still exist, but have no origin. Cool.

Hellenion.

(Wait... How would you travel to the future in the first place?)