Time travel ethics

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Please don't make a thread based on hentai plotlines.

 

[Megaton Punch]

I once read an SF story a bit like that. Forgotten the title but I'll try to recall the plot: An old billionaire (and owner of the company that makes time machines) deliberately jumps back into his teenage body to have one last fling with a girl he'd had an on-again-off-again thing for decades, ending with her death a few years ago. He finds her not only willing but some of her behaviors seem to almost foreshadow future events.

The final page revelation: The woman had done the exact same thing just before she died; not only jumping back into her teenage self, but bribing someone close to the guy to make sure that when he got the itch he was sent back to precisely the same date to "keep the appointment", as it were. The old guy, who was entirely cool with banging a teenager under very sketchy pretenses, seems quite distressed to be manipulated into a transtemporal rendezvous.

That sounds like a Twilight Zone version of the Piña Colada song.

If you like fucking teenagers
And traveling back in time
If you've got lots of money
You can avoid any crime
If your soul mate died a while back
Cut through all the red tape
Just travel back to your past, and
Commit statutory rape

 

[Starved Artist]

>Get time travel.
>Trying to fuck

Man. I'm telling my parents to invest in Facebook.

 

[Roast Chicken]

>Get time travel.
>Trying to fuck

Man. I'm telling my parents to invest in Facebook.

This, too. You've been sent back in time with the foreknowledge of upcoming events. You could make better choices. You could get FUCKING RICH.

But you'd also have your loved ones and friends in that timeline worrying about you because while you're trying to maintain the ruse that you're still a dumb teenager you can't remember things that they told your pre-time travel self, that you would have forgotten years ago - "Dude, my hamster's name is Skittles, you know that. Are you okay?"; "I told you I have a dentist appointment this week, and you know the dog has her pills added to her dinner, what do you mean you forgot?!"

Or you accidentally reveal things you're not supposed to know, so people think you've been snooping around or are psychic and you get chucked into a gubment facility.

 

[skykiii]

I gotta agree with the premise that if I were sent back in time my first thought would not be anything related to sex. I could see that being a concern if like, I were stuck there or something for a very long time... but really my first thought would be wanting to visit nostalgic locations and finding ways to hide how much I'm literally crying.

Gay I know but... I was gonna say "fuck me," but don't, you might get aids.

 

[Space Police]

>ooh, a neat sci-fi/philosophy thread!
>it's fetish nonsense

 

[Megaton Punch]

>ooh, a neat sci-fi/philosophy thread!
>it's fetish nonsense

Find me a work of science fiction that isn't fetish nonsense. Can you name even one thing? I thought not.

 

[Space Police]

Find me a work of science fiction that isn't fetish nonsense. Can you name even one thing? I thought not.

Marvel-era Transformers, Star Wars prequels and EU, most Star Trek episodes . . .

 

[ZeCommissar]

I have thought of a similar scenario before, but just a little more extreme. I thought "what if I woke up one day as a 5 year old and somehow retained all of my knowledge of the future" just ignore the probable biological impossibility of a 5 year olds brain being able to handle the memories and experiences of a grown man.

So many ethical questions arise. Do you warn what used to be late family members of impending death? Especially if said deaths are avoidable? What about friendships? Could you even have legitimate relationships with your own peers while growing up with them again considering you have decades of life experience on them? This is just a handful of questions that come up.

Going to the "is it cheating on your wife?" question. Isn't everyone in that now non existent timeline from before basically dead to you at this point? The people that are with you "now" might as well just be clones. Is having sex after your wife dies cheating? Well I don't think so, but if your wife dies I would find it extremely distasteful if you just dropped your pants at the first woman that looked at you one day later. In this scenario you have far bigger things to worry about.

Oh and about the girlfriend? Well considering she's a ex from highschool the relationship won't last anyway. Might as well break up with her and save time. Having any sexual relationships before you're an adult again in this scenario IMO would be unethical, and it would be nightmarish because imagine trying to date a 16 year old girl when you're mentally 35. Yeah...NO

 

[Meriasek]

Since you're mentally much older, would it be ethical to sleep with anyone, actually? You'd have a lot more experience and maturity which would probably yield you much more success with girls since you'd be less of an awkward sperg than you were in your actual teenage years, but you'd also be taking advantage of that dynamic.
On the other hand, teenagers are horrible, and would you even want to associate with them, let alone sleep with them?

 

[Divine Power]

It's ok little buddy