[ SECRET POST #2476 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2476 ⌋

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Comments

Importance =/= Impact

[nyxelestia]

If we were to jump in a time machine, go back about five hundred years and kill some random mid-European peasant who had no impact on history whatsoever, we wouldn't think much of it.

Until we got back to the present, saw that everything was different, and realized oops, we just killed Hitler's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparent. And due to the way genetics work, eliminating just one ancestor means no more Hitler.

Sure, the rest of history will trudge on, and probably there will still be SOMEBODY who does something similar to what Hitler did in our reality. But they still wouldn't be Hitler.

Ergo, that random mid-European peasant is still important - just not because of their own impact.

Re: Importance =/= Impact

[kamino_neko]

It's even better than that. Look up Pedigree Collapse. By killing a random medieval German peasant before he produced all the children he would have produced had you not killed him, you have, at minimum, effected the ancestry, and thus identity, of everybody of German descent by the time you've hit the 20th century. Go back just a little further, and you've changed everyone of European descent. Go back a little further still, and everybody on Earth has had their ancestry changed.

(This is even ignoring the changes in social dynamics wrought by removing anyone from the matrix (eg: by killing Adolph the Sheep Shagger, you keep Ludwig the Shepherd from meeting Helga the Barmaid, because he doesn't need to go drink away the image, so Ludwig, jr is never born and none of his descendants happen, despite not having Adolph's blood), and just talking about the genetic contribution. But you could totally change the 20th century by killing someone from the 13th, who never reproduced, too.)

Re: Importance =/= Impact

[nyxelestia]

Step on a butterfly at the dawn of the species, change the whole damn universe, including the humans at the end of the universe that the Master recruited into his Toclafane army.