Time travel in 2013's "About Time"
qntm.org/timPosted Apr 13, 2015, 11:57 AM UTC
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Totally unrelated, but a question for you nonetheless: on the index page for Ra, there's a link to The Network Revenant. Except that I can't find how it's related to the story. Halp?
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It's another story by a friend of mine, which I think you should read.
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OK, you can't go back in time before your child is born or your child won't be born, I guess that's the schtick, right?
But every time you go back and change the past, you unmake innumerable children of other people who now won't be born due to the butterfly effect. Sucks to be them I guess, because they're not protagonists.
Makes sense to me. It's not "killing" your child that's the problem, it's the fact that you still remember them and you'll never see them again. Erasing someone from existence and replacing them with a different person isn't murder, unless you knew them personally and made the decision that the world would be a better place without them.
You might not agree with that philosophy, but it's consistent enough for a story.