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[demeter918]

For some reason, I've started a fic project that will probably drive me mad in the end. ;_;

But it makes me really happy. Weird.

Okay, anyways.

Broad question(s): if you had one chance, just one chance to go back in time, to the past, whatever, to change the way things were in order to change the way things are, would you take that chance? More importantly, if you knew that killing one person would mean saving a hundred others, would you kill that person, even if he or she is still only a child? Would you try to change that child in order to avoid that future, but risk it happening it anyways? Believe in destiny much?

I hope this becomes my baby. =P

Comments

[nemkess.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would take a chance to go back in time in a heartbeat.

As for the killing... I'm not sure. Depends on how badly I hated what they did, I suppose...

[demeter918.livejournal.com]

See, I kept wondering whether I'd do it. I'm worried about the other things I could change if I was given the chance.

[cheloya.livejournal.com]

For the first, I assume time and fate were sorted out long before I came along, therefore nothing I do in my life would actually change anything. Therefore, should I choose to go back in time, I would only be changing things so that they became as they did, not so that they became a different thing. (Man, I hate discussing time continuums without a copy of H2G2 to refer to issues of tense. XD)

As for the next two, I'd try to change the child to avoid that future, but if my above belief holds true, then you were doomed from beginning. I guess it stems from how much you trust your prophets, and I tend not to. So... I probably wouldn't kill the one, unless my loved one was at risk in the vision of the future. Then, the one would be dead, child or no.

Destiny... well. There's destiny and there's destiny. There's the way things OUGHT to happen (as in, were pre-ordained to happen), and there's the way things DO happen. The way things DO happen is what I believe in. The other is just a hopeful delusion.

I don't think I explained that well at all. But I know what I mean. *sigh* Damn. One of those wordless things.