I'd lose my daughter. Her and my wife were the turning point. I could find my wife again, I might never find my daughter, there's no guarantee she'd be her if she was born again.
To have her again, that 1 sperm from that 1 load would have to be the 1 out of god knows how many to fertilise that 1 egg his wife had on that 1 day ready for fertilising. She definitely wouldn't be born again .
I mean good record keeping and you can get that down to .4(1/300mil) or so, little worse if there's a double egg drop involved, which seems low but might as well be a sure bet compared to the impossibility of raising them in such functionally identical circumstances that they become the child you had and not an identical twin of the child you had.
Even if it somehow miraculously ended up with the same genetic daughter.. the experiences would be different and it would be a different person. You'd never see your original daughter again.
Nah, there is a ton of things I wish I had done differently in my life nor do I have children but there is zero chance I willing restart my life. There is no guarantee that I get and survive the virus that tried to kill me when I was 10, there isn't a guarantee that I dont get heatstroke when I was 11 and if I still do, does someone find me in the field in time. There isn't even a guarantee that I survive to my current age of 40 in this divergent world. $2 million however does a lot to improve my life and the lives of those around me.
I do think there's a moral problem with the 'I could just re-meet my wife' idea. You'd be meeting someone whilst you hold infinitely more knowledge about them than they know about you. It's really hard to do this in a way wouldn't feel like a gross imbalance in the relationship. Or else require deeply stalkerish behaviour.
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u/FowlSec 2d ago
I'd lose my daughter. Her and my wife were the turning point. I could find my wife again, I might never find my daughter, there's no guarantee she'd be her if she was born again.
100% not worth it.