If you could press a button to change the past such that the slave trade to America never began, would you do it?
Assume memories are changed so that nobody, including you, knows you pressed the button, and roughly the same people exist, just in diff timelines.
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One possible argument is that in this alternate reality, America might be significantly more white/homogeneous than it would be now, and there might be greater income discrepancy between white and black people.
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In my opinion.
Time travel is something we should never mess with. It's called the grandfather effect. You go back in time and kill your grandpa. You no longer exist but now you couldn't have gone back in time to kill him.... so what happens?
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I'd go so far as to change the entire motive for colonization to begin with, given that the Brits wanted to just remove the poor from England because they were just too visible. Not to mention the fact that indentured servitude was just a way to con people into slavery.
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So nothing really stops the slave trade from continuing elsewhere I see. If not America then certainly other countries would have continued it.
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I pressed no. Let me start by saying that slave trading is absolutely horrifying and shouldn't have happened. However, it made us evolve to know what is right or wrong. Like lab experiments, until we find something for a better future.
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I want to push yes with all my heart, my reservation is when you U^%& with the timeline and erase something, you don’t know what will appear in it’s place until afterwards. So, yes, if I get a future video cam that shows me it doesn’t spawn a worse distopia.
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If you end slavery but somehow prevent the formation of the USA the net positive might not be what some short sighted people think.
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