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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
They would, of course, have rules about interfering with the past, but all it takes is one person breaking those rules - one person who thinks "if I go back in time and create a moral code, humanity will surely develop more peacefully and quickly than it already has!"
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Were I the hypothetical time traveler and I wanted to speed up the development of humanity I wouldn't attempt to accomplish that in some backwoods desert shit hole. I would want the most bang for my buck and so would take my case to a far more advanced and influential society (like Rome). And knowing that quality of life correlates with technology, my message would be one of lessons in mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and engineering. If nothing else, I would remove the "God" concept as people interpreting Gods will and using that to justify violence and oppression has proven to be a more likely catalyst for ultimate destruction.
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Of course, another person might get their hands on the technology and think, "wouldn't it be funny if I told cavemen some stories about the earth being created in 7 days?!"
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Creation stories weren't a foreign concept at the time.
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Maybe Jesus was another time traveler, attempting to ease humanity back on the right path only to have even his message screwed up by people too strongly attached to the old ways.
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I'd like to believe that forethought would cause time-traveling Jesus to at least write down his "message" and do so in a way that would not be open to interpretation, rather than have it spread by word of mouth for the next couple of hundred years.
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Could it be that that is how humanity has ultimately destroyed itself? Could it be that humanity's advancement - the creation of time travel technology - ultimately set its own development back by thousands of years or more?!
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Were that the case, then just prior to the "ultimate destruction of humanity", it would be logical to just go back and prevent the invention that allowed time travel.
Or, when those "in the past" had developed, achieved, and therefore proven the possibility of time travel and its existence at present, sending someone from the future back to that point with a warning of the consequences would be taken seriously by those in the past