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OhhhJa posted...

Currant_Kaiser posted...

The concept of time travel is way too destructive. You'd have to be a complete moron to consider it. Even doing seemingly harmless things in the past could produce the butterfly effect and drastically change the future and prevent the time traveler from even being born in the first place. Never mind the fact that people would use it to go to famous events and meet famous people, thus guaranteeing that some massive changes occur.

Honestly, I think the butterfly effect idea is pretty unrealistic. One person has relatively little effect on the grand scheme of anything especially if they aren't trying to drastically change things

If you go back far enough you're going to inevitably make some changes. Hold an ancient Greek man up from having sex with his wife for just a short while and BAM, different offspring, who would then go on to have his own offspring that would never have existed, and that continues on and on and you wind up putting new people into existence at the expense of those who had come into existence prior to your time travel shenanigans.