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?
I pick the greatest mass murderer MAO (80 million innocents killed) and those in the Zer0 administration who worship him.
Good choice. I also vote for Hitler.
“Karl Marx, even his kids would have agreed.”
That was my first pick, as we know that Obambie is a Marxist, but then you have Lenin, Trotsky, and others to be included.
Others on here have made some great choices, but there are really so many very destructive creeps in history, it is impossible to just pic one.
If it weren't for the "bad eggs" we would never learn. Obama, for example, has managed to dismantle our constitution in just 20 months (albeit aided & abetted by the MSM). But without his overreaches the Tea Party movement would never have been borne.
We need villains to shake us out of our complacency and to rally our forces to keep our republic free.
Leni
She was Sarah’s servant. She gave Abraham a son, Ishmael. Sarah gave Abraham a son as well, Isaac. Isaac was the son that led to the nation of Israel and Ishmael was the son that led to Islam.
“Abrahams Egyptian maid, Ishtar.”
You mean Hagar?
Ooh ooh ooh! I want to pick two people! Admin Mod and WALDO! Thats the reason I can never find him! Because he doesn’t exist! Its so simple now!
Rousseau was my choice also but for once I scrolled through the thread before posting. He was the “source” idiot for all the Communist/politically correct idiots who have followed his unrealistic thinking.
I do believe the name was Hagar.
It’s a tough choice between Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson.
> “I pick the greatest mass murderer MAO (80 million innocents killed)”
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Excelent choice. It has to be him or Stalin. They both put Hitler to shame.
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I pick Sidebar Mod’s twin brother Landfill. He tried to chug in my face.
I agree; suppose that someone Hitler-like but not as insane took his place. I'm reminded of a short story in which a time traveler goes back to ancient Greece to give them the beginnings of modern technology. He figures we'll have starships when he gets back to the 20th century. To make a short story shorter, he winds up scaring the pants (togas?) off of the philosophers of the day, and they won't touch science with a 10-foot pole. When he gets back to America in the 20th Century, science has been set back centuries, and the Indians are still in charge of most of North America. The story ends with him looking at a sign he's hung on the wall of his room, which says in English (a language that no longer exists) "Leave well enough alone!"
None. Per the “butterfly effect”, I wouldn’t be here.
The one common ancestor to all the morons that voted for Obama.
Yoko Ono. Lennon might not have gone so commie-crazy, and we might have got a few more good albums out of the Beatles at least. We’d lose Sean and Julian, but they haven’t accomplished much.
I do like some Wings stuff, but that would probably just get delayed, and if not, I can live without it.
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