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John Titor - Original Conversations From 2001
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<blockquote data-quote="temporal recon" data-source="post: 53694" data-attributes="member: 2826"><p>This is a good point and merits exploring: the morality of Time Travel itself. If we allow the conceit that time travel is to modify the past at different points in our history for some larger purpose, where do they "get the right?"</p><p>Not to be confused with taking sides, I would put forward three ideas for you to consider:</p><p> </p><p>1) If an individual time traveler (let's call him John) , rented a room in your house for a time and merely conducted himself normally, ate dinner with you, drank with you, watched TV with you then left, would the results of his stay as they pertain to your life be any different from if some other person rented your room? Is his job title the only reason for the prejudice against your boarder? </p><p> </p><p>2) To extend our example just a tad, what if mission planners in 2063 realized that the key reason we hadn't made it to Mars by then is because your roommate (who would later become the key engineer who developed a special part of the rocket that would get us there) was killed when he was hit by a car in front of your home. To avoid this and to give us a better chance of going to Mars, John rented the room before our Engineer friend. By precluding your engineer friend from living in your home, John has saved his life and ("more" importantly) made it possible for humans to land on Mars. Likely, these same mission planners and researchers likely measured effect your life might have with this change and weighed it against the gains of landing on Mars; remember, they <em>already know</em> how your life will unfold, it isn't a guess. And to answer your statement that people coming into and out of your life have a purpose, whose to say you weren't "meant" to meet this Time Traveler and have very interesting "what if" conversations over Top Ramen noodles? </p><p> </p><p>3) And finally, if your past were changed, <em>you would have no measure to tell the difference anyway.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Which brings us back to a previous question: <em>How do mission planners measure success?</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As always,</p><p>Kind Regards</p><p>TR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="temporal recon, post: 53694, member: 2826"] This is a good point and merits exploring: the morality of Time Travel itself. If we allow the conceit that time travel is to modify the past at different points in our history for some larger purpose, where do they "get the right?" Not to be confused with taking sides, I would put forward three ideas for you to consider: 1) If an individual time traveler (let's call him John) , rented a room in your house for a time and merely conducted himself normally, ate dinner with you, drank with you, watched TV with you then left, would the results of his stay as they pertain to your life be any different from if some other person rented your room? Is his job title the only reason for the prejudice against your boarder? 2) To extend our example just a tad, what if mission planners in 2063 realized that the key reason we hadn't made it to Mars by then is because your roommate (who would later become the key engineer who developed a special part of the rocket that would get us there) was killed when he was hit by a car in front of your home. To avoid this and to give us a better chance of going to Mars, John rented the room before our Engineer friend. By precluding your engineer friend from living in your home, John has saved his life and ("more" importantly) made it possible for humans to land on Mars. Likely, these same mission planners and researchers likely measured effect your life might have with this change and weighed it against the gains of landing on Mars; remember, they [I]already know[/I] how your life will unfold, it isn't a guess. And to answer your statement that people coming into and out of your life have a purpose, whose to say you weren't "meant" to meet this Time Traveler and have very interesting "what if" conversations over Top Ramen noodles? 3) And finally, if your past were changed, [I]you would have no measure to tell the difference anyway.[/I] Which brings us back to a previous question: [I]How do mission planners measure success?[/I] As always, Kind Regards TR [/QUOTE]
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