So I Had a Thought... · 3:06pm May 1st, 2015
Time travel would fuck up everything we know about philosophy and theology. So much so, that I hope we never manage it. Screw paradoxes and all that wibbly-wobbly, sciencey-wiencey stuff; I'm worried about what would happen to simple logic! One of the most valid proofs that a God exists is St. Aquinas' assertion that nothing can effectively cause itself, indirectly or directly. If order of events is rendered useless, then things CAN cause themselves by paradox, and render many proofs of a higher being (the first cause, himself uncaused) useless. I don't know about you, but total atheism does not sound like a good moral base for faith.
I'm not religious, but telling a vast majority of the people in the world that everything they based their moral decision on was debunked is a bad idea.
Beyond that, there is no justification whatsoever to use time travel. None. Manipulating time for any other reason than to passively observe would be selfish and rash. One could research and plan for decades about the resultant consequences, but the fact of the matter is that one still cannot humanly account for every sanity-forsaken particle and atom in the universe that could be affected. And yes, that's what it would take to do safe time travel. We're not Time Lords, guys.
