Interesting idea.
Generally if governments want to avert a course of action they go looking for someone to kill, not someone to save. I doubt time travel would change this.
How do they pinpoint these individuals? What measure do they invoke to say they would if they lived, individually have a demonstrable effect on averting human disaster?
My only real critique is that is would be hard to argue that one person could have had such an effect and more importantly, how are you dealing with the paradox that if they managed to do so, they wouldn't have sent someone in the first place.
Generally if governments want to avert a course of action they go looking for someone to kill, not someone to save. I doubt time travel would change this.
How do they pinpoint these individuals? What measure do they invoke to say they would if they lived, individually have a demonstrable effect on averting human disaster?
My only real critique is that is would be hard to argue that one person could have had such an effect and more importantly, how are you dealing with the paradox that if they managed to do so, they wouldn't have sent someone in the first place.
Self-authenticating private evidence is useless, because it is indistinguishable from the illusion of it. ― Kel, Kelosophy Blog
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
