If you could travel in time and reshape history after your will, would you do it?
This it is only a theoretical question {even if it is most probably such a thing is impossible for anything less than supreme being}
I found the idea of reshaping history a very interesting dilemma which presents a big fascination.
Hmm, what if such would be possible? Beyond of the realistical and techincal problems any thing remoted to that would present . . . what would even be the moral implications of such an act?
For myself I thing that on one way it would be the greatest evil and horrible thing to be done and on the other way the greatest and most wonderful good thing to be done.
How so?
The greatest bad thing as if you will reshape the natural history then you will create a new present reality for better or worse at the expense of obliterating the natural one. You will not only kill countless billions of human beings and all their descendants that could be . . . you will even erase them from existence as they would have never been.
If you kill somebody then you stop his existence to some point, {and if you believe in souls or after life etc. you have to admit that his soul will still remain or continue his existence in some afterlife}. Yet his existence has been in a certain time.
If you erase from time the existence of somebody . . . . well, then that one will never have been at all and even worse than in crime case, his soul will not have existed at all. That is the true total annihilation!
And as well you do that for all his descendants . . . and in the line of time that might mean billions over billions over endless billions.
The removing of a existence from time is it as evil or as worse than a crime?
The greatest good thing could be if you would create a better history, not the tragedy which it is the natural one, then you could avoid huge tragedies of the past and the death of countless human beings as well as a better life for them. And because of that countless of billions of lives that normally should not have been . . . will come to be . . .
To change the course of history would be to wipe out many beings, and remove them from very existence... but would it not also be to be the progenitor of many, many more, especially if the action was to reverse great tragedies of history {avoiding the fall of Rome . . . or the First World War and its aftermath, including the Second World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Holocaust of the Gulag}?
Would you think that saving so many or creating so many lives not more than balance out the "destroying" of so many?
Well, this it is some moral dilemma. What are your thoughts about it?
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