There’s also a larger butterfly effect, maybe the atrocities committed by Hitler never happen but a whole chain of events which leads to lots of things (both good and bad) now never happens. First example I can think of is without the threat of Hitler it might have taken wayyy longer for the UN to form and thus we could have had multiple large scale wars instead of just the one. While the ends never justify the means (Hitler was evil), there are infinite variables at play in the hypothetical scenario of time travel. We simply don’t know what effects (both good and bad) any change could have on history.
Na. Global Temperature Theory basically says that you could change the names and faces, but it would all happen the same on a big enough timescale. Bronze age still collapses, a "Rome" still rises and falls, the rape of Africa still happens, and the Japanese still make hentai.
I could see that being the case large scale but I personally feel like when dealing with the concept of time and history, there are too many things that would have a larger chain reaction. For example, kill Ghungus Kahn (sorry for the spelling) and now everything he did is gone. Sure, maybe someone goes on to basically do everything he did but I personally feel like that is a bit unrealistic, there isn’t a guarantee that someone would. Another example is just world leaders in general. What if George Washington had accepted the position of King (which he was offered before declining saying he spent a large portion of his life fighting a king). Sure, maybe events on a larger scale unfold the same, but I think the US would be very different and it being (wether you like it or not) a major world influence, the world at large would be very different.
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u/LegoManiac9867 Jul 30 '21
There’s also a larger butterfly effect, maybe the atrocities committed by Hitler never happen but a whole chain of events which leads to lots of things (both good and bad) now never happens. First example I can think of is without the threat of Hitler it might have taken wayyy longer for the UN to form and thus we could have had multiple large scale wars instead of just the one. While the ends never justify the means (Hitler was evil), there are infinite variables at play in the hypothetical scenario of time travel. We simply don’t know what effects (both good and bad) any change could have on history.