Posted on 09/22/2010 8:32:49 PM PDT by Abin Sur
If you could eliminate one person from history, who would it be? One caveat: it can't be Muhammad, for one simple reason: almost everyone is going to pick him! This would get rather monotonous, so let's just assume that 90% (at least) of the responses would pick Muhammad first. If you still pick him...BZZT I'm sorry, you've lost, thank you for playing and here's a copy of our home game.
And let's not have anyone picking Muhammad's father or grandfather just to get at him, either. That's cheating.
Ok, now that that's out of the way, who do you pick? Here's the rules: You can go back in history and prevent any one person from being born. You don't have to kill anyone. For instance, if you want to stop Hitler from being born, you can go up to Klara Pölzl (Adolph's mother) in 1880 and give her 10,000 marks to emigrate to the USA. She never marries Alois, so presto...no Adolph. This will have the incidental effect of preventing his brothers from being born as well, of course.
After you prevent your target from being conceived, you snap back to 2010 and enjoy living in a world made better by your actions. Bear in mind, though, that removing someone from history may not have that great an effect. If you prevent Darwin from existing, someone is still going to come up with the theory of evolution. It may be called by another name, and it may be delayed by a decade or two, but things tend to get invented when it's time to invent them.
I would note that some individuals would be exceptions. If you took out Isaac Newton (heaven know why, but it's your choice), modern science as we know it would be delayed by half a century, at least.
Anyway, that's the setup. Who do you pick, and what do you think would be the result of this person not existing?
Mine as well.
It’s scary the answers liberals on KOS would come up with. I bet there would be a lot saying Moses, Jesus, Paul, or Reagan.
I confess, a similar thread on Dummy Underground is what gave me the idea for this one. Their thread is "What ancient historical event or trend would you prevent or change if you could?"
By far the most popular choice is to eliminate Jesus or religion in general. Also popular are getting rid of Reagan, capitalism, Columbus discovering America, and humanity itself.
The first jerk to decide it was the Govt’s job to take care of people.....
Marx.
Maximilien Robespierre
What the....? All of my siblings, except one, voted for Obama! What're ya trying to do to me here? LOL
Didn't you get the memo? Hate to be the one to break this to you, but you and your sibling were adopted. :-)
Maximilien Robespierre, but I repeat myself.
Eliminate Juan and you eliminate millions.
After 9/11, he had the power to destroy islum, Build a damn fence, control illegal immigration. He could have done everything and anything. Instead of Mobilizing US into a WW
2 TYPE ECONOMIC AND MILITARY STEAMROLLER.......
....instead he told us to keep shopping, go to Disneyland and remember that islum was a religion of peace.
oh well...Thats the conception prevention I vote for.
Heh... I tell you, sometimes it sure seems that way. We're 180 degrees out of sync with the rest of the family.
Karl Marx
It’s an issue that can go to the core of your view of existance.
Karl Marx.
Besides Adam, only Noah and Jesus along with His lineage are important. All the rest are naught but the consequences of our own collective sin.
That was all part of mohammed's story. He was looking into the various religions of the day and he resented the story of Isaac being chosen over Ishmael. He is the one that started the story, trying to give validity to his satanic verses!
I concur with you on Lenin.
Yeah, you’re absolutely correct. There’s a great anecdote about him from Boswell. Boswell once asked Johnson who was the most evil, Rousseau or Voltaire? Johnson, “Sir! It is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.”
Definitely Karl Marx- If there had been no Marx, then there would have been no Stalin, no Lenin, no Mao, no Castro, no Pol Pot, no Adolph (National Socialist) Hitler...the list goes on & on.
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