If you could erase any one murder from history, which would it be?
2007-05-18 17:20:00 · 9 answers · asked by thankutomyfans 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
None. Three reasons.
1. People die. That's a fact of life. May as well get used to it. Saving someone is likely only going to prolong the inevitable. Odds are you save a guy from murder, and he walks out in front of a bus immediately after.
2. Changing the past can have serious repercussions and unintended results. You save JFK or John Lennon or MLK or the Archduke Ferdinand, and you easily could trigger events that could result in worse things happening than what did. (I also challenge that saving Ferdinand would have made any difference. Any scholar of WWI knows that the war was going to happen anway, due to high attentions and political backstabbing, and it was just a matter of when. The assassination of Ferdinand was only a trigger. Another trigger easily could have replaced it, and everything would have happened roughly the same).
3. There is no ethical or fair way to make the decision. Whoever you choose to save, someone else gets the shaft. Factor in the chooser's responsibility for the results, and that is simply a burden I would not want to carry.
2007-05-18 17:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be the murder of arch duke ferdinand,If he survived WW 1 and 2 would never have happened.But by going back in time and doing this you would be launched into another universe,A parallell one.A universe with the same laws and physics and evrything but it followed a different history.Or Martin Luther King JR. To whom i owe my life,
2007-05-19 00:25:10 · answer #2 · answered by Unibird Spririt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that we have learned a lot from our follies in WW1 and WW2 as well as the rest of history. But if we took back the JFK assassination, we (as the public) may have learned a lot more about the way the country is run. Speculation says that he was ready to divulge information held safe in the upper echelons of America for hundreds of years. He may even have revealed clues to extraterrestrials, computers, and technology we're just beginning to see today.
But, as with all people who go against the grain, he was killed. It's just the way things go.
2007-05-19 00:29:56 · answer #3 · answered by tr0n42 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martin Luther King, Jr.
2007-05-19 00:23:16 · answer #4 · answered by Steven 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a tie in my mind. Between John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Either one - or - both of them had so much to offer the world.
2007-05-19 00:33:58 · answer #5 · answered by vlwfromoz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought I would say Jesus Christ. But then I thought that If it hadn't happened that way, what would the world be like today? So, I guess I have to go all the way back to Abel.
2007-05-19 00:44:24 · answer #6 · answered by Nevermore 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My uncle Marty's
drinking&&and driving is murder
2007-05-19 01:15:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure...just one????.....probably a child that was murdered.
2007-05-19 00:27:26 · answer #8 · answered by voandginger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
honest abe........... he talked a lot i would like to see if he wouldve really followed through
2007-05-19 00:29:01 · answer #9 · answered by jazigurl33 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋