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Time Travel Essay

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After watching Back to the Future, Edge of Tomorrow, and 12 Monkeys, I realized that time travel is a very interesting and thought-provoking topic. Some people would say they think time travel should be used if it is found to be possible. I disagree, I don’t think that it should be used. There are lots of ways time travel could be good and benefit humankind. But, there are also bad ways it can be used, which strongly outweigh the benefits.
Time travel could be used as a very useful tool in helping prevent disasters like viruses spreading, outbreaks of wars, and many other undesirable events. “We could take people who don’t deserve to hold a position of power and make sure they don’t enter that position” (Rosenbaum “Is Time Travel a Good …show more content…

Any given action you make in the past could threaten your existence. Many people say if they could time travel they would go back to stop or kill Hitler.
“While this may seem like a heroic thing to do, the most disturbing part is that you may never exist if Hitler never became the Nazi leader. Events that we think we have no part in whatsoever can actually affect our family tree, and if your great-grandfather would have ever met your great grandmother, and if he hadn’t, then he has different children, and they are part of a completely different future from what had existed before” (Rosenbaum “Is Time Travel a Good Idea?”).

Also, there's a paradox where if you were successful in killing Hitler then he would remain unknown, and therefore you would have no reason to kill him. “if Hitler died before he became known, then you wouldn’t know who he was and therefore have no reason to travel through time to murder him” (Griffiths “The Dangers of Traveling through Time”). Also, Political candidates can use time travel to eliminate their competition and gain undeserved power. “A time-traveling machine will be the equivalent of a nuclear bomb. It can destroy civilizations and make one country hate the other for having one” (Rosenbaum “Is Time Travel a Good Idea?”). This is very true, time travel will divide and cause disruption between countries. Countries without a time travel

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