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If you could go back in history and reverse one terrible tragedy which would you choose and why?

Posted - February 24, 2018
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  • 53823


      We know we mustn't violate the Prime Directive, right, Bones?


      
      February 25, 2018 12:29 PM MST
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  • 7280
    ...Ouch---LOL
      February 25, 2018 12:36 PM MST
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  • 44796
    I wouldn't change anything. The butterfly effect, you know.
      February 25, 2018 12:28 PM MST
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  • 113301
    I know. Didja see that Star Trek episode decades ago where they went back in time to save the life of a woman but when they saw (by whatever means) the chaos and enormous tragedies that would result they did nothing, she died and they went back to their time? Our Answermug pal Shuhak reminded me of the name of the episode.."The City on the Edge of Forever" which is on this thread. Things unfold as they are supposed to I suppose. Thank you for your reply Ele and Happy Monday! :)
      February 26, 2018 5:07 AM MST
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  • We can avoid all tragedies by traveling far enough back in time to prevent humans from having existed in the first place. 
      February 26, 2018 5:08 AM MST
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  • 46117
    Everything is a result of everything else.

    If I take away World War II, that would mean the end of all things that we learned FROM that war.

    Maybe we would be closer to a Nazi concentration camp now than we would be without that horrific reminder looming over our shoulders.

    If we abolished slavery back in the day, perhaps slavery would have sprung up in the future in the States.

    If we did not slaughter the Indian out of hand, maybe we all would not be condemned to hell right now.  Seriously though, maybe the Europeans would have sailed here and committed the atrocity for us instead.

    SO, unless you want total peace on Earth and Goodwill towards all men, no one incident in history would solve any healing issue. 


    Even the Crucifixion was necessary.   Look, we are still talking about it.

    If Jesus didn't happen, some may think that all the problems with religion would end, but Jesus was necessary.  If He didn't happen, we would have helped create Him.





      February 26, 2018 7:30 AM MST
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  • 113301
    That is without a doubt the most disgusting graphic I have ever seen. The head of evil doofus don superimposed on the body of Jesus. Just my reaction to it Sharon. No disrespect intended toward you. Thank you for your reply.
      February 27, 2018 5:21 AM MST
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  • 46117
    This is how Trump's voters view him.  This is how he views himself. 
      February 27, 2018 6:44 PM MST
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  • 113301
    Agreed. Sadly true.
      February 28, 2018 3:03 AM MST
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  • 24128
    I was thinking along the same lines, Sharonna.
    :)
      February 27, 2018 10:38 AM MST
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  • 6023

    Yep ... the US was involved in eugenics prior to WW2.

      February 27, 2018 1:38 PM MST
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  • 3463
    The birth of serial killers and Charles Manson.
    I would have given the parents plenty of birth control to prevent those births.
      February 26, 2018 11:09 AM MST
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  • 113301
    You know m'dear I wonder exactly how many that would be? Serial killers worldwide from the beginning of when they were recorded? That would certainly be a good choice. Thank you for  your reply Lulu'sMom! I wonder if Google could answer THAT question? How many serial killers have there ever been? Maybe knowing the answer to that would be far too depressing. Maybe I'll just leave it alone. :(
      February 27, 2018 5:24 AM MST
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  • 3375
    I would have to choose any dictator that may have cost millions their lives.  Adolf Hitler comes to mind.  I know there are others that were just as brutal and horrific.  
      February 26, 2018 11:13 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Well m'dear right off the bat 6 million Jews wouldn't have been murdered. How many others in other countries as well as Germany died because of him...you know the ripple effect? It would be a lot. Thank you for your reply PeaPod! :)
      February 27, 2018 5:25 AM MST
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  • 6023

    Go back earlier and prevent the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand ... thus preventing WWI - which eventually led to Hitler's rise to power, WWII, and the holocaust. 

    Without that assassination, it may even have prevented the Russian Revolution, and the world turmoil that caused (Cold War, rise of communism, genocide due to communist revolutions).

      February 27, 2018 1:35 PM MST
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  • 113301
    Sounds like a very excellent choice to me Walt. Thank you for your thoughtful analysis and reply. Happy Wednesday! :) IF ONLY!
      February 28, 2018 3:04 AM MST
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  • 24128

    Though I agree with Sharonna's answer, the first thing to come to my mind is not one tragedy;

    terribly, it's happened too much ~

    Genocide of any kind

     
    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at February 28, 2018 3:05 AM MST
      February 27, 2018 10:39 AM MST
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  • 113301
    You're right. Genocide happens everywhere. The only thing that's different is the scale. Sigh. Thank you for your reply WQ and Happy Wednesday to you! :)
      February 28, 2018 3:14 AM MST
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  • 24128
    Thank you; you, too, Rosie!
    :)
      February 28, 2018 7:18 AM MST
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  • 423
    I don't know if there is a particular term describing selective outrage, but whenever I hear about the six million Jews killed in the concentration camps in WWII, I wonder whether it is Jewish propaganda or something else that precludes mention of the OTHER 5 million camp dead, the non-Jewish victims if you like. Of course 6 million deaths makes the Germans look slightly less evil and bloodthirsty than 11 million, and losing the strictly Jewish focus does tend to water down the extent of the awfulness for any pro-Jewish after-the-fact hay-makers, but I really don't think we have German post-war sensibility to blame for this fault of omission. Maybe it is a case of the 5 million 'others' having no vocal advocates, and so that proportion of dead gets lost in the folds of history - the homosexuals, Poles, churchmen, political dissenters, gypsies and 'accidentals' - those many unfortunates on no NAZI list of 'undesirables', who were by chance gathered up in sweeps and, once captured, found the system they were inadvertently caught up in had no backtracking mechanism to admit and fix errors.       
    We have a curious situation though, don't we. Here is yet another excellent self-aggrandizing band-wagon to be leapt aboard by the new wave of brave talkers, and yet they prefer to look away, effecting ignorance - and very competently they do it, too.
      February 27, 2018 1:23 PM MST
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  • 113301
    This is a very interesting point you bring up Stemmata. It is worth pursuing. I am of Armenian descent and there was a genocide at the hands of the Turks during which 1.5 million of "my people" died. The Nazis used ovens and other means to murder 6 million people while the Turks used death marches  and other means to murder Armenians. Now how many others besides  Armenians were murdered during that time by the Turks? I have no idea but I'm sure there were many. Once a murderer always a murderer. My view is formed by my history. I am 80 and the Armenian genocide happened before my time.  In my case my mom was an infant. She and her parents escaped to Paris. Her grandparents and older sister Anne (2 years old) were to follow. They never made it out. They all died on a death march. That is what I have been told and every Armenian family has a similar tale to tell. That is why I relate so strongly to Jewish people. They are also my people in that we share the experience of genocide. How many other people there were who are never talked about I cannot say because I do not know. It was good of you to bring that to our attention. Mourning loss  is endless for humans isn't it? We tend to focus on "our own kind". Some of us try to extend that to humankind/mankind. Some of us don't give a rat's a** about any of it. SIGH. It is what it is. We do our best...some of us. Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply and Happy Wednesday! :)
      February 28, 2018 3:24 AM MST
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  • 17315
    Whatever caused our twin daughters to be stillborn. They'd be 27 now.
      February 28, 2018 3:29 AM MST
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