if these actions caused someone to not have children, and those children not to have children etc etc... then basically this is a worse crime than murder because those people would never exist at all. If time travel is possible, even very remotely.. then this calls lots of things into question.
what is your take on this?
2007-11-29 01:55:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
does the soul have any meaning if existence can be ripped away by someone in the future?
Even if you were to live a good life, die, go to heaven or whatever.... what if someone at a later date while you are in heaven were to travel back and unmake you? This in essence would destroy your soul and you would be as nothing. So I would have to figure time travel to be very impossible simply because I do not wish to live in a world where it is a reality. Does this make sense to you guys?
2007-11-29 02:05:11 · update #1
you say it could work out in a good way, but this wouldnt be for the people who would no longer exist.
lets say in 10 years from now someone finds a way to go back and they have their heart set on fixing 9/11.... do they have the right to do this? Is this the right thing to do? Maybe someone who lost a loved one remarried and had another child. This child would me unmade. They would no longer exist. I would not exist had a tragedy occurred in WW1. If someone stopped that war or altered it in anyway...... I am talking about the morality of changing things in the past if they will cause certain people to be unmade. Is it good to alter past events if it would do this?
2007-11-29 04:24:39 · update #2
no one has understood the question yet. This is way more important than simply people living or dying. This is about people being robbed of existence completely.
2007-11-29 05:11:39 · update #3
Im single and no marriage yet but I will go back and continue the same way..... LOL well dont want to change anything yet and dont think I will
2007-11-29 02:00:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Haven't you learned not to mess with the time-space continuum.. Consider the idea of killing Hitler:
If you could go back into time and were able to kill Hitler when he was a baby, would you do it? You wouldn't dare kill him, haven't you learned not to mess with the space time continuum?
Consider the possible consequence. You kill Hitler as a young child, years later, say 1933, Ernst Roehm instead becomes dictator, in mid 1930s, HE decides to begin 'heavy water' experiments which lead to the first nuclear bomb built in 1939.
With that device, he easiliy defeats mother russia and the allies, and the Final Solution is 'completed.' Your mistep in the space time continuum caused the death of ALL European Jewry and enslavement of half the planet...way to go!....you should'a stayed home in bed where it was safe and leave the living to others..
2007-11-29 12:59:39 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like the grandfather paradox. a good example is the movie "back to the future". it can work out in a good way and in a bad way.
2007-11-29 11:12:38 · answer #3 · answered by WreckinShop 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's already happened, but in our reality, those people have been born, that's why they spontaneously combust.
2007-11-29 10:04:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jenny G 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋