Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 08, 2015
May 07, 2015
May 09, 2015
Transcript:
Goat: What would you change if you could go back in time and change anything? The outcome of a war? The existence of an empire? The demise of a civilization? Pig: I guess I'd always go back five minutes. Goat; Why five minutes? Pig: So I could eat the same nachos forever. Goat: Maybe you could think bigger. Pig: Oh, I'll get bigger.
Never think bigger when talking time travel, Goat. Time traveling to change the past is a very dangerous game to play, one which most folks don’t tend to consider the consequences of. I’ve often seen folks ask if you could go back in time and kill Hitler before he came to power would you do it? So many say yes, I say no. Not because I admire that monster, but because I don’t know what effects killing him would have on history. Maybe millions of people would have lived, or maybe there was a worst monster held in check by his presence who would have caused twice as many deaths as Hitler did. What if one of those to die because of Hitler was that worst monster? What about the BILLIONS of folks who I’d be consigning to never being born in the first place by removing Hitler so early? Hundreds of millions were born during the baby boom that followed the war. I’m talking world wide here, in the U.S. alone the baby boom period saw about 78.1 million kids born in this period. And then you’ve got their children and grand children (and even great grand children in some instances).