Even if Time travel is possible, I don't believe we should ever do it. I think most people would love to go back and re-write history. Kill Hitler during his childhood to prevent the holocaust, kill Pol Pot or Idi Amin or attempt to prevent the Titanic or the Hindenberg. Human tragedy is a very sensitive issue, and we would feel a sense of accomplishment having made it so human tragedies never occurred.
But you have to understand, if you were to go back and warn the captain of the Titanic, preventing it from ever sinking, it would have happened to another ship. Before the Titanic, ships weren't forced to carry enough lifeboats for ever passenger. The tragedy of the Titanic made us set up safety rules and regulations for luxury liners for the first time in history.
If you killed Hitler and prevented the holocaust, more than likely Israel would have never become it's own nation. See what I mean? There would be repurcussions for everything we do, if we were to travel back to the 20's and leave our laptop, and they were able to reverse engineer the technology, we would jump our technological advancement 75 years, opening up the possibility that we would create a technology before we were mature enough to use it. At first this sounds wonderful. But when you look at what our technology was used for from the 20's up until the 70's you have to ask yourself do you really want to give America, or any other nation for that matter a technological advantage that is decades ahead of everyone else? There will be consequences to everything we do in time travel. And I doubt we have the self-control to do nothing with time travel.
That being said, I too would travel back to last Saturday with last weekend's winning lottery numbers.
But you have to understand, if you were to go back and warn the captain of the Titanic, preventing it from ever sinking, it would have happened to another ship. Before the Titanic, ships weren't forced to carry enough lifeboats for ever passenger. The tragedy of the Titanic made us set up safety rules and regulations for luxury liners for the first time in history.
If you killed Hitler and prevented the holocaust, more than likely Israel would have never become it's own nation. See what I mean? There would be repurcussions for everything we do, if we were to travel back to the 20's and leave our laptop, and they were able to reverse engineer the technology, we would jump our technological advancement 75 years, opening up the possibility that we would create a technology before we were mature enough to use it. At first this sounds wonderful. But when you look at what our technology was used for from the 20's up until the 70's you have to ask yourself do you really want to give America, or any other nation for that matter a technological advantage that is decades ahead of everyone else? There will be consequences to everything we do in time travel. And I doubt we have the self-control to do nothing with time travel.
That being said, I too would travel back to last Saturday with last weekend's winning lottery numbers.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
