That broad is the anti-Christ!!!
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?
Anyone who has ever been on the Biggest Loser...
Sarah Connor
Margaret Sanger
Ditto!
Abraham’s Egyptian maid, Ishtar.
I’m keeping it a secret.
You’ll never know.
Beat me to it.
You have to ask?
Start with the bozo in the Da Black haus.
Dave Breese - “Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave”
Darwin
Marx
Wellhousen
Dewey
Freud
Keynes
Kierkegaard
Jeez, I want to say Obama, but who made it possible for a guy like Obama to come to fruition?
I am going to say Noam Chomsky
Kant. No Kant means no Marx and no Nietzche and no Hitler.
ROFL.
Excellent choice.
Why not Alfred Russel Wallace?
“If we picked Isaac Newton, we’d still be floating around because he invented gravity.”
Not to mention I don’t like the sound of “Fig Einstein’s.”
Mao
A thoughtful question, but you are dragging ex-wives and ex-husbands into it.
Good luck with that.
My ex-wife
I think Woodrow Wilson might be on my list.
Er...who? And why?
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