Re: What if you could travel back in time?
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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.
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