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berinwitness wrote: Lady Cop wrote: UsedToRide wrote: Not really historically significant to a lot of people, but I'd find John Couey and shoot him in the head.  When he was about 20.
geeze, i LIKE that thought! i'd go into his cell and strangle the living hell out of him slowly. now that you made me think about it.....oh gawd i'd be a mass murderer! but the victims would be useless bastards who would never be missed.

There was an episode of the new "Outer Limits" series in which a woman with access to a time machine would wait until each serial killer was convicted and executed, and then she would go back before their first murder.

Woman with large revolver: "I'm here to carry out that just and legal sentence."

Man who doesn't realize what he is destined to become: "But I didn't DO anything!"

The question becomes, would altering the timeline so the serial killer did not kill one or more of his victims unleash an even greater evil because that person survived? Paradoxical outcomes are inevitable.

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g097103 wrote: berinwitness wrote: Lady Cop wrote: UsedToRide wrote: Not really historically significant to a lot of people, but I'd find John Couey and shoot him in the head.  When he was about 20.
geeze, i LIKE that thought! i'd go into his cell and strangle the living hell out of him slowly. now that you made me think about it.....oh gawd i'd be a mass murderer! but the victims would be useless bastards who would never be missed.

There was an episode of the new "Outer Limits" series in which a woman with access to a time machine would wait until each serial killer was convicted and executed, and then she would go back before their first murder.

Woman with large revolver: "I'm here to carry out that just and legal sentence."

Man who doesn't realize what he is destined to become: "But I didn't DO anything!"

The question becomes, would altering the timeline so the serial killer did not kill one or more of his victims unleash an even greater evil because that person survived? Paradoxical outcomes are inevitable.

I think the OP assumes that time travel is paradox-free.  Otherwise, it wouldn't make any sense.  E.g., if you go back and kill Hitler to prevent WWII and the Holocaust, then WWII and the Holocaust never happened.  So why did you go back in time in the first place?  Inevitably, if time travel is possible to the past, it creates two parallel universes:  One in which the event you wanted to change happened, and one in which you prevented this event.  Thus, the time traveller never ends up saving the world he intended to change, but instead changes his adopted world.


 




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1jester wrote: I wish I could have influenced Eve to have resisted the Serpent's wiles so that sin would not have entered the world and caused so much suffering.


You really think that doing that would have stopped it forever?

That one event was the ONLY time it could ever have started?




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Well, we're all talking about a whole bunch of ifs, ands and buts anyway. In answer to your question, I didn't say that that one event was the only time it could have started, but I responded in the way I did because of the way it started. I really don't think God wanted sin to enter the world, though I do know He knew it would happen. Fortunately He had a backup plan for us to escape sin forever.




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 Posted: 08:11 pm

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"Sin" was (and is) inevitable. The first sin is the very last thing I would bother changing.

And since spades have been broken, I'd go back in time to make sure that Hansel and Gretal never ran out of bright stones.

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I'd like to go back to the first person who started a religion and punch him in the face.

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