• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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      This is what I thought as well.

      If I picked Hitler (because that’s the mandatory first choice) I’d be preventing WW2, which my Grandpa fought in. That would definitely affect my existence in some way.

      I feel like Trump’s influence between his birth and mine wouldn’t have a direct impact on my parents’ actions.

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      Someone in the comments said if you kill somebody you also kill any children they might have. I’m going to second your motion.

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    It’s been discussed here much better than I could, but I concur with, you pretty much can’t.

    The slightest change would cause ripple effects that would affect almost everything.

    Everyone always gravitates to the big names… Hitler, Trump, Elmo… But even the most possible mundane person, such as an Inuit baby born to parents in the remotest part of the Arctic 200 years ago, would be enough to cause changes that could easily keep you from being born.

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    without inadvertently making it so you were never born?

    I dunno, getting rid of the My Pillow guy might be worth it anyway.

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    Just a reminder to people: if you remove anyone who has (or will have) children, from a certain moral perspective you’re responsible for them never existing, which could be considered akin to murder. Just take that into account in your considerations. Might make this a much thornier question, ethically, for some.

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    No screw it I’m removing myself. Only way to be rid of this insanity

    Oh shit before I was born ok I guess my father for the same reason.