What if you could travel back in time?

[bocablkr]

Let's assume time travel is possible. What event in past history would you want to travel back to in order to witness it first hand or maybe even prevent it?

[Hamish McBagpipe]

Prevent? I'd go back to 10/11/05 10:42 AM.

[TomCollins]

Easy choice. No crucifixion of Jesus. No Martyr, no religion.

[bocablkr]

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Prevent? I'd go back to 10/11/05 10:42 AM.

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Good one - but if you don't like the topic why not just ignore it?

[mrgold]

More interesting question is would it be ethical to prevent a certain historical event from occuring and thus changing the entire flow of history? What if you were confident it was like to increase social welfare throughout history (what if you are certain?)? Or is this a violation of the rights of the people who have sucessful lives (or for whatever reason are not dead) as a result of that historical event you could stop.

I don't mean to hijack this thread but my post was inspired by a previous poster that suggested he would stop the curcifixtion of Jesus to prevent the inception of Christianity. Assuming Christianity has caused more harm than good (a proposition I am not particularly interested in debating) would he be violating the rights of people who find solace in the Christian religion today preemptively eliminating it?

[hurlyburly]

Primordial earth. Bring back a cup of soup in a vacuum container for study.

Secondary, go back and prevent the founding fathers from allowing slavery.

[bocablkr]

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More interesting question is would it be ethical to prevent a certain historical event from occuring and thus changing the entire flow of history? What if you were confident it was like to increase social welfare throughout history (what if you are certain?)? Or is this a violation of the rights of the people who have sucessful lives (or for whatever reason are not dead) as a result of that historical event you could stop.

I don't mean to hijack this thread but my post was inspired by a previous poster that suggested he would stop the curcifixtion of Jesus to prevent the inception of Christianity. Assuming Christianity has caused more harm than good (a proposition I am not particularly interested in debating) would he be violating the rights of people who find solace in the Christian religion today preemptively eliminating it?

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An interesting ethical question that Star Trek posed many times. Do think if Christianity had never happened that some new religion would have come about anyway or would there just be a lot more Jews and Muslims now?

By the way - I would have travelled back to see how Dinosaurs actually lived.

I would put a bullet in Hitler's brain then anally rape Thomas Jefferson.

Then I would give the slaves machine guns.

[benkahuna]

No Thomas Jefferson, no dumbwaiter. You'd be seriously screwing everyone that has a dumbwaiter.

[jakethebake]

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Secondary, go back and prevent the founding fathers from allowing slavery.

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This is hilarious. You realize that even if you did this, those slaves would mostly still have been slaves just not here?