[Mad] - Fate
Jan. 16th, 2009 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changehistoryBeyond the obvious animal cruelty issues, does anyone really care if the butterflies get stepped on? Really?
Because, in the end, if time is fluid and people are hopping all around in it anyway, then we're all already living in someone's past, and when we, using the whole "we" loosely here mind you, go bopping off to the future and see something dire and them come back here and decide we can't let that happen, well then, we annihilate those people's future.
What the hell is the difference with going back and changing the past? Because, oh dear god, we might change the present? And that's too horrible to contemplate, even if we might make it a better present, but we can change the future without any thought about the implications?
So, I ask you--are we really worried about the poor butterflies, or do we just want to selfishly preserve the status quo that best suits us, citing butterflies and hurricanes and dire and disastrous results of messing with "fate" and "destiny", but when it doesn't suit us, we decide we must change it and damn the butterflies and their right to not be stepped on?
No, honestly--I'm curious.
Because, in the end, if time is fluid and people are hopping all around in it anyway, then we're all already living in someone's past, and when we, using the whole "we" loosely here mind you, go bopping off to the future and see something dire and them come back here and decide we can't let that happen, well then, we annihilate those people's future.
What the hell is the difference with going back and changing the past? Because, oh dear god, we might change the present? And that's too horrible to contemplate, even if we might make it a better present, but we can change the future without any thought about the implications?
So, I ask you--are we really worried about the poor butterflies, or do we just want to selfishly preserve the status quo that best suits us, citing butterflies and hurricanes and dire and disastrous results of messing with "fate" and "destiny", but when it doesn't suit us, we decide we must change it and damn the butterflies and their right to not be stepped on?
No, honestly--I'm curious.
