Time Travelling Morality Question
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Time Travelling Morality Question
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Re: Time Travelling Morality Question
If he went back to his own time, he wouldn't be caught.
And, in any case, nothing other people could do to him would be as suited to the crime as having to live with the trauma. This crime is its own self-administered punishment.
BTW - Should you be seeking professional help with this preoccupation?
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I was going to make that point, but I figured it would sound better if you did.Albert Tatlock wrote: ↑February 21st, 2018, 5:05 pmSo you're saying that it would have to be the child that molested himself as an adult?
But seriously, if/when you travel to the future, you will have just skipped to the future (there won't be a second "future" you there who is an older version of yourself). In other words there is only one you. You would be surrounded by older versions of folks who didn't travel with you, but since you jumped into the time machine, there is no thread of you NOT jumping into the time machine (to exist in an alternative future where you are old).
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If the time travelling parties do not feel that they are one and the same then they are effectively different people, with usual morality and empathy applying.
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Would that make it an admirable enthusiasm or an unhealthy obsession?Albert Tatlock wrote: ↑February 24th, 2018, 3:28 pmTechnically, yes, but it's rare for someone to go to such extraordinary lengths for the sake of a wank.
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The Outer Limits (1996) ep 2.1
"A Stitch in Time"
- great drama involving abusers + time travel
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