Poll: Would you resolve your origin?

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JanatUrlich

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lol I loved Rant <3 Too bad Chuck Palahniuk's novels went down the fucking shitter after it

OT: Yes I would
 

Natsuhiko

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Plazmatic said:
Natsuhiko said:
Ok, this is a little obscure, but I just read the novel "Rant," dealing with time travel and such. So my question to you is, if you could, would you resolve your origin?

For those of you who have not read the book, resolving origin means going back in time and killing your mother, or some other ancestor, before they give birth to you. This removes your origin makes you immortal.

Also, I'm not here to discuss the mechanics of it, i'm here to discuss the morals.

Well you cant really discuss anything of it, it just doesn't make sense how it would make you immortal, there are no morals since it has no thought behind it, its illogical.


The reason this can't happen is because if you went back in time, and you tried to kill some one or do anything out of the historical timeline you would either

A. be cast into a differant universe (based on the multiverse theory were there are infinitally many numbers of universi, were lets say you walked left on a path on your universe, in another universe you walked left, any variation that is possible actually happened, just in another univers, like nazi's winning ww2.) you would simply end up in another universe altogether.

B. theres no possible way to change the past even if you could be there. You would either end up helping along the normal processes, or you simply would not beable to kill someone, even if you tried to shoot them point blank, somthing at some time would stop either you or your bullet from shooting who ever it was you were trying to shoot in the past.

Yeah the idea that becoming immortal after killing your parents is retarded first off, due to ABSOLUTELY NO BASIS, and it's just stupid. Try thinking of somthing abit more logical
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The point isn't whether of you killed you parents you would be immortal. I didn't wite the novel. The point is: If you could become immortal by killing one of your parents, would you? That's the moral issue I was interested in.
 

Jaythulhu

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Ehhh, the very concept sounds like it would cause a temporal paradox that would inevitably shred the fabric of the universe. Not make someone immortal.

More pondering gives me this as the most likely outcome:
You vanish as the universe problem of you being around now you can't be born.
 

Jaygee02

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I wouldn't murder anyone for anything. I think I'd avoid going to the past, there's so much potential to do drastic damage.
The future however... fun times.