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If you could go back in history and stop any historical event or disaster from happening, which one would it be? My choice would be 9-11. What's your choice?

2006-10-17 14:52:10 · 22 answers · asked by tucsondude 4 in Social Science Psychology

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Yes, I agree with you 100%. It would have to be 9-1-1. It's not fun to travel in an airplane anymore as we are always afraid of who is sitting beside us. We have to keep our baggage close so not one puts anything inside it. We have to eat with plastic forks and not carry our nail clippers in our carry on luggage. The lines at the airport are long and it just a royal pain in the butt.

2006-10-17 15:33:30 · answer #1 · answered by elanabutcher 4 · 0 0

I wouldn't change or stop anything because I have no idea what other disasters or consequences that might spawn, regardless of who would be saved in the process. We can only accept and learn from history.

(By the way, for those I've put a thumbs-down on up there, there is no real Adam or Eve, they're characters from a story meant to represent the first man and woman, and the "fruit" was only a symbolic image of letting our desires make our decisions for us. How could the writer write about the beginning of the world, literally, when he wasn't even alive at the time? Ugh, fundamentalist christians!)

2006-10-17 22:00:35 · answer #2 · answered by ELI 4 · 2 0

There's a lot of events from which to choose, but I have to say I may choose Hitler's getting into power and the holocaust. There were other things farther back in history, so because there are people still alive today who lived through that I guess that's why I choose that (that, and the fact that it was one of history's "big horrors").

September 11 was horrible, and I'd love to be able to go back and not let it happen; but the holocaust was on a whole other, widespread, more complicated, extreme, level.

2006-10-17 22:01:16 · answer #3 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 0 1

I know this isn't historical really but I would have changed the day John Candy died....or maybe someone could have gotten to him sooner that was a really sad day for me. What a great loss to everyone who loved him...Never forget Uncle Buck.....he had a big heart and i am sure he was that way in life too not just his movies!

2006-10-18 00:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by bowl_me_over_with_love 2 · 0 1

i read world war 1 and 2 history and calls my attention was the hitler regime, the tremendeous killings, expiremental of human and innocent children., men and women are nowhere to hide. i read also an articles from readers digest about hitler, its horrible, with matching pictures. also one was the hiroshima bombing, it took years the effect of the chemical weapon used.,if you could only see the pictures of the victims, adult and children, you can imagine the pain and sufferings of those people. these two events i would like to stop. and i wish it didnt happened.

2006-10-17 22:56:37 · answer #5 · answered by Salvacionf 4 · 0 1

I would have stopped Jeb bush from becoming governor of Florida. this hopefully would have prevented his brother from stealing the election. History would have been much different with a democrat in the white house

2006-10-17 22:05:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

I would love to change anything that caused the most suffering.

HOWEVER I would not change anything, and don't take this as a sign of me being evil, but I wouldn't

we learn from the past other wise it would repeat itself and keep happening over and over again

2006-10-17 21:56:47 · answer #7 · answered by sesamenc 4 · 3 0

I would of stopped the Chicago Bears from not winning the Monday Night Football game with Phoenix by 10 1/2 points. I lost $5 on that game!!!!! Those f$%#$%!!!!!!

2006-10-17 22:13:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

Excellent question. Hard to choose just one event.

Globally: AIDS epidemic
Historically: World War I and II, Korean War, Vietman Conflict/War, Iraq War...
Personally: My Mother's tragic death at age 29

2006-10-17 22:04:57 · answer #9 · answered by Rhonda 7 · 0 1

None. There were chain reactions to all disasters, both man and nature made. The world is unfolding as it should.

2006-10-17 21:59:54 · answer #10 · answered by Crazymom 6 · 3 0

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