(January 25, 2018 at 3:28 pm)wallym Wrote:(January 25, 2018 at 3:06 pm)Cyberman Wrote: To channel my inner Thunderf00t, were I to find myself suddenly transported into those times with the same mind I have at present, ie I'm the sazme person as I am now, then no I would not do those things. I could not do those things. On the other hand, if I was to find myself a product of my time, then that person would not be me to the extent that I could not say either way how I might behave. That's why I can reflect on the worst periods in history and think how terrible that people were subjected to them.
I think you just agreed with my bolded?
Only up to a point, because your thought experiment concerned "you and I". I said that the person representing me in that scenario would either be me as I am now, or some other person I wouldn't recognise; being so far removed from 'me' as to be literally not me, and thus neither of us are in a position to speculate on how I would behave.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
