Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agoYou've been given the power to remove anyone, who was alive before you were born, from the timeline. How do you use this power without inadvertently making it so you were never born?message-squaremessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down14
arrow-up143arrow-down1message-squareYou've been given the power to remove anyone, who was alive before you were born, from the timeline. How do you use this power without inadvertently making it so you were never born?Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 days agoDo I have to ensure I’m still born? If not, I choose the last common ancestor of modern humans. We’ve screwed things up enough that I think the world would clearly be better off without us.
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoSure, yeah. How would you know it worked though?
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoI wouldn’t, but I would know if it didn’t work and that’s pretty much the same thing.
Do I have to ensure I’m still born? If not, I choose the last common ancestor of modern humans. We’ve screwed things up enough that I think the world would clearly be better off without us.
Sure, yeah. How would you know it worked though?
I wouldn’t, but I would know if it didn’t work and that’s pretty much the same thing.