If I could go back in time I would go to the year 1173 and get a young Genghis Khan addicted to online poker, thus preventing him from going on a global rampage to dominate the Earth.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
Jokes on you! Turned out you already did that (or rather, will do that soon) and the result is that, lil' Genghis was forced to conquer a huge empire to pay off his gambling debts
Some people think this is immoral since he was only 11 years old at the time and we shouldn't exposed children to gambling, but I believe this is balanced out by the millions of people he would go on to brutally slaughter.
The crazy thing is that we do exist because horrible things happened. If you erase events like this, you erase yourself, everyone else alive, as well as every generation to that point, billions cease to exist by your hands - And if you've erased yourself, then how could you go back in time to do it?
But think about all the children he would not father. It is estimated he fathered 10,000 children, more than wilt chamberlain, with an estimated 6,000 children
Comments
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/genghis-khan-and-the-making-of-the-modern-world_jack-weatherford/249051/#idiq=4078860&edition=3469510