And in case anybody is wondering, I personally would press yes.
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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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It was horrible, yes. But if we simply pressed a button and wiped that event out then tens of millions of people are never born. They're just gone. Our history that affected our great grandparents and so on, just gone. You'd kill more people in a button press than Hitler.
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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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I cannot conceive of why anyone would press the No button
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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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Can't change the past. Can work on the future.
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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 pressed no” “Slave trading is horrible and shouldn’t have happened” How do you reconcile these two, when faced with the option of hypothetically ensuring it never happened? Not hypothetically btw, many people did know and believe slave trading was wrong while it happened
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