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ChocoboMog123 posted...

Say goodbye to any cousins/nephews/anyone under 19 that you know today. Mess with an event that reaching and odds are that they won't exist in the new timeline.

Again, this is bad movie logic. Odds are most events won't change that drastically. Maybe some people have sex on different days, maybe some people don't get together at all. Do you care if the universe you're put into is exactly the same as the one you were taken from? You're already a time traveller, you're already influencing things. And, again, you're doing this every day in the real world, influencing things in ways you cannot comprehend.

Not movie logic, science. Even if the day of a couple having sex doesn't change, even the slightest change in the way/timing on that day can throw that (minimum) 1 in 40 million chance of a person being born as they are off the rails. And odds are, something that big would throw off everyone who's ever heard of it enough to completely rewrite pretty much everyone conceived after that date (at least in the U.S.).

If anything, it's movie logic that messing with time doesn't mess with stuff like this.

So, yeah, you can claim that it doesn't matter to you, but anyone else considering something like this would probably be off put by the info that they'd pretty much be condemning everyone they know under 19 to nonexistence. Sure, odds are that they'd be replaced in some way or another by another person, and it probably wouldn't change too many large events, but that's still a heavy burden for anyone with younger relatives or acquaintances.
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