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Subject: You go back in time and kill your past self...
Poll: You go back in time and kill your past self...  [closed]
It is murder.:  41%
(18 Votes)
It is suicide. :  59%
(26 Votes)
Total Votes: 44

If you went back in time and killed your past self, have you committed murder, or have you committed suicide?

This is assuming that time is straightforward. Any action that you perform on your past self has no impact on your current self. So, if you killed your past self from a year ago, you'll still have that scar that you got six months ago. The person you kill is indeed you, but you are independent of each other.

So, what is it? To commit murder is to kill another person in cold blood. Your past self has done nothing wrong to you and you are not killing them in self-defense. But to commit suicide is to kill oneself, and you are clearly killing yourself. DNA tests prove that you and your past self are indeed one in the same. And if it's suicide, does this mean that the justice system can't punish you? After all, you killed yourself.

Feel free to discuss. I'm just curious as to what others think.

  • 01.06.2013 7:57 PM PDT

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  • 01.06.2013 8:00 PM PDT

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It is closing my loop.

  • 01.06.2013 8:01 PM PDT
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You can't.

  • 01.06.2013 8:01 PM PDT

Well considering I was suicidal then....

  • 01.06.2013 8:01 PM PDT
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If you go back in time and -blam!- yourself is it -blam!-ion or sex?

  • 01.06.2013 8:01 PM PDT
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We aren't 2 people with identical DNA, we're the same person from two different points in time. It's technically suicide.

  • 01.06.2013 8:01 PM PDT
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But my past self would know I'm coming so It could be different
every time I go back.

MIND=-blam!- BLOWN.

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It's obviously both. Assuming the present you would die as well.

  • 01.06.2013 8:03 PM PDT

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It is closing my loop.

  • 01.06.2013 8:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: BROWN HAWK
It is closing my loop.


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  • 01.06.2013 8:05 PM PDT

There's a “U” and “I” in union but just an “I” in my beliefs

I would be dead so this never happened.

  • 01.06.2013 8:05 PM PDT

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The way you described it, it would have to be murder. The fact that nothing happens to you when you kill this person proves that it's not you. Only a person that shares everything you do.

  • 01.06.2013 8:09 PM PDT
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Then I shall be my past self until the time comes to kill my past self, and repeat the process.

And none shall ever know.

[Edited on 01.06.2013 8:10 PM PST]

  • 01.06.2013 8:10 PM PDT

Do you really want to know?

Paradox alert.

You wouldn't exist to go back and kill yourself.

  • 01.06.2013 8:11 PM PDT

Time paradox, your future self kills your past self, however your past self cant go on to become your future self if he's dead. Universe breaks and we all get launched into deep into the singularity of a black hole.

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Posted by: I IRONMAN I
Paradox alert.

You wouldn't exist to go back and kill yourself.

  • 01.06.2013 8:13 PM PDT

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Murder. Hypothetically, because time travel isn't possible, if you went back in time and were able to coexist with your past self, killing him would be murder because that version of yourself would be a distinct organism.

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Posted by: I IRONMAN I
Paradox alert.

You wouldn't exist to go back and kill yourself.

Exactly, people always fail to see this.

  • 01.06.2013 8:15 PM PDT

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If you kill ur past self ur futer self can't exist so u die.

  • 01.06.2013 8:16 PM PDT

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Time travel isn't possible, silly.

  • 01.06.2013 8:16 PM PDT

So wait, if I killed my past self, I would be dead in the present.
Or would I be just, invisible to the world, like I never existed.
This hurts my brain.

  • 01.06.2013 8:27 PM PDT

It's murder and the justice system can punish you

Suicide is a crime

  • 01.06.2013 8:31 PM PDT

It would be suicide because if you kill your past self you die too

  • 01.06.2013 8:33 PM PDT

Murdacide!

But it's impossible. If you traveled back and killed your past self you would cease to exist from that point on and not be able to travel back later, to kill yourself...

  • 01.06.2013 8:35 PM PDT

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