So during my exams in the week before last week, I missed a contest. Well I did miss several contests and I mean I didn't participate in them. Now most of them I missed because I didn't find anything worth writing within those parameters. Some I think I can write but I eventually miss it because of my substantial amount of deadlines which are always looming on my head. So exams are over and I have a few days of free time in my hand before I can get busy with my research paper. And so I was scrolling on the contest page and as I was saying the week before last week one particular contest caught my eye. Suffice to say I missed that completely and that I did not even know what the topic was on that period. So the contest topic was about time machines. And the ethical dilemma of it. And I think I can talk a mouthful of that situation.
There are not just ethical dilemmas. There are a lot of dilemmas which we can significantly fall into if time machines were ever discovered. I mean it is discovered, it's just not invented yet. Is theoretically time travel is possible but it is nonsensical in the physical world. So let's say we have one of those time traveling kits and suddenly all the value of time will be gone. People will never care about consequences. Take an example, say you want to impress a girl and you don't know what she likes. So if you, like the checkpoint system in a game, keep traveling back into time every time trying new theories which can impress her. Then would you have given the thought of “what can I do to impress her” in the first place? The same can be said for a lot of things. The magic of a beautiful moment spent with family or friends or in a certain place or environment which means a lot to you, will certainly not mean anything to you as you will travel back in time and relive the moment again. You don't need to simulate it in your head every time after the one time it took place in reality. But those are just the bad sides. There are good sides and way too good to be apocalyptic sides to this as well. Let's say a good person has the ability to time travel, he will redo a lot of mistakes that he made in life and make it a bit more special for his family. That is some of the best uses of time travel which humanity could rely on. I asked for the apocalyptic side, since there will be time travel. No one will be stuck with their mistake and everyone will become the perfect role model. And we have learned the hard way that way too much perfection is just as bad as no perfection.
Time travel could open a lot of doors including time itself. But it's the value of time that keeps us moving forward. The moment that a value evaporates through these situations, people and their innovations will stagnate. That is just my bold claim
