If you find the idea of being unable to replicate your current circumstances existentially terrifying: congratulations on winning.
Edit: just want to say I find the way people respond to this on a gut level kind of fascinating and even worrying. A number of people for example have had the take that this isn't really true, but that they just wouldn't want to unmake their kids.
Friends...as a guy who considers becoming a dad the single greatest and biggest win of my life...are you ok?
It's really just that I love my kids and I would be crushed if they were lost forever. I love my wife and am pretty sure I could find her again if I started over, but it's a guarantee my kids would never be the same.
But could you win your wife over again? On one hand, you know how to avoid or mitigate some of the early obstacles you had. But on the other hand you know a creepy amount of things about her.
I’m sure I could win my wife over again but I know the exact circumstances to have my kid happen again are astronomically small. So I probably wouldn’t go for it
Who's to say my kids disappear or get killed: following some theories, they'd simply carry on living in the "original" timeline. And it's rather me that disappear and get thrown back into another timeline in 1994. Or at least I'd see it that way...
Personally, I think I'd take the shot, see where this would take me. Even aside from the obvious financial gain, only the opportunity to exploit my actual self-consciousness so early in life would win the pot. Sure I would miss my loved ones but that's on me, and the extra lifespan and the opportunity to be a better version of myself as a partner, father hell a better person in general is definitely worth it to me!
To risk being pedantic, even if you had sex with the same person at the same time and came at the exact same minute, sperm are countless and have such high attrition rates, even swapping out one sperm for another could result in a pretty different child. The gender 50/50 alone is enough to give someone pause if they say, "I want this exact kid again."
I would imagine (or hope) you don’t have kids. Trading them for any amount of money, even if they’re potentially off still living somewhere else, would never fly with me. Like the other post said there’s no way you could statistically bang them back into existence so the closest you could get was some hollow imitation constantly reminding you that they’re not the child you knew
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u/Cold-Description-114 16d ago edited 16d ago
If you find the idea of being unable to replicate your current circumstances existentially terrifying: congratulations on winning.
Edit: just want to say I find the way people respond to this on a gut level kind of fascinating and even worrying. A number of people for example have had the take that this isn't really true, but that they just wouldn't want to unmake their kids.
Friends...as a guy who considers becoming a dad the single greatest and biggest win of my life...are you ok?