You've been given an opportunity to delete one thing from life. page 2

Anything you remove will have more effects than you can ever imagine. I will choose not to remove anything due to it being too dangerous to do.

Negativity. MWHA HA!

Including unhappiness, sadness…

I win.

Originally posted by Darkruler2005:

Anything you remove will have more effects than you can ever imagine. I will choose not to remove anything due to it being too dangerous to do.

Remove danger then.

Pfff… hard to say
I’m just a young teen, so I might delete something that deletes something else like my head, so I would be punching a wall for eternity.
Nothing… for reasons that several people have already cited. i could delete bunnies, then their predators might starve a bit, making an ancestor of Abe Lincoln or Bob starve, or the population of both predator and prey might regulate themselves, possibly resulting in the changing of DNA within one of the animals’ genome, or not, resulting in other catastrophic results. Anyone here read ‘A sound of Thunder’? some guy goes in a time machine to DINO AGE!!! where dinos do not buy upgrades and do not launch airstrikes, lawyers and other lethal projectiles, but are still scary. So this guy runs away, squashes a butterfly which then kills so-and-so by the aforementioned method of starvation of important ancestors. Of course according to biology, the populations will regualte, but even so…

Nothing

Originally posted by RMcD:

Negativity. MWHA HA!

Including unhappiness, sadness…

I win.

Originally posted by Darkruler2005:

Anything you remove will have more effects than you can ever imagine. I will choose not to remove anything due to it being too dangerous to do.

Remove danger then.

Then he would have used his one removing, and so did it for no reason.

Remove danger then.

Danger is too abstract. It is merely a description, a concept. We would simply be unable to name something “dangerous”, but it still would be. That’s my guess, though. I’ve never messed around with the ability to delete something.

Originally posted by Measle:

Originally posted by Pink_Fuzzy_Bunny:

Communism/Socialism/Marxism

So Russia stays a monarchy?

No. The first rebellion in February 1917 which deposed the monarchy was not down to the Bolsheviks.

Like people have already stated, I’d probably play it safe. I’d be too nervous of delting anything from watching sci fi films in which tiny changes fucked up the rest of their lives.

If I absolutely had to delete something it’d be someone like Joseph Fritzl. I don’t think that would have too big an impact on anything.

i would delete the knacks in the laws of physics that allow people to delete one thing in life.
the reason is simple. if i can use technology to delete a major problem, others can also do this. i know lots of mean and/or stupid people who would for sure try to mess up life totaly (for example by removing gravity, life itself or the universe). removing mean people won’t work because there still will be stupid people that could mess up, and removing stupidity simply leaves the mean people.

therefore the only thing i could do to prevent the universe from getting messed up will be to remove the glitch in the laws of physics that allow me to remove them in the first place.

If I absolutely had to delete something it’d be someone like Joseph Fritzl. I don’t think that would have too big an impact on anything.

You’d be surprised. Aside from the obvious negative things you’re removing, you’re also removing every single step he made, every little bump he did, every time he had even the slightest of impact on someone else’s life (a mere glance over your shoulder to look at him when he is calling too loudly while slowing down your movement, for example). You would honestly be surprised by the massive amount of changes you’re making when “deleting” a single thing from existence, along with the impacts it had on the universe.

therefore the only thing i could do to prevent the universe from getting messed up will be to remove the glitch in the laws of physics that allow me to remove them in the first place.

Do you realize what that would unfold? The original poster clearly stated that whatever happened through the thing you’re deleting is deleted as well. Through this “glitch”, or whatever you wish to call it, you’re able to delete a thing. You delete it. It therefore negates your deletion. It therefore exists again. Which means you would be able to delete it. Paradox.

i always wanted to know what would happen if this kind of paradox happens. so that might be a good way to find out without killing myself right?

i always wanted to know what would happen if this kind of paradox happens. so that might be a good way to find out without killing myself right?

We currently think it is impossible to create a paradox, simply because we think the way the universe works does not allow it. It may as well work if there was ever a possibility (travelling back in time to kill yourself), but the effects could be devastating.

could be, or it could be a lot off fun when it happens.
it is natural for people to be afraid at something they don’t know (the dark, strangers, death, paradoxes). but not all of them might be that bad. if you had seen a paradox happening and said it was devastating i would believe you, but you probably did not as you are still here, so if you ever have seen a paradox happening (which i think you did not), it was not devastating.
you have no reason to believe that a paradox might be devastating. except maybe fear of the unknown.
so just let me make my paradox ok?

I don’t quite follow that logic. Pretending to be tough does not excuse you from being careful. There’s more at stake than just your pride.

I am not saying this in response to you creating a paradox, but towards your overall stance. You seem to think that the best way to find something out is to do it, forgetting that there may be the option to study this without actually performing it. It is not fear, it is simply being careful.

some things can not be learned by using deduction only. you have to see them in order to fully understand what they do. even if it is risky.
personally i think the odds are 1/1000000(insert lots of zeros here)0000 that an actual bad thing might happen in case of a paradox. if they really can happen, they probably happened before and the universe still seems to be doing fine.

What if I use that power to delete you? The power to delete is thus never granted, and thus I did not have the power to delete you.

well, darkruler would be pissed off, because you caused a paradox.

You personally giving a chance to something we have never seen is rather ridiculous. I myself believe creating a paradox is not even physically possible. As for the first part, I’m risk-averse. If we have an unknown button offered to us by some advanced alien being, you might carelessly push it, while I would find out what it would do (not by asking the alien, of course). If I can’t find out, I won’t push it. The risk is too big.

The thing about you and your paradox is that you seem to say “it doesn’t matter, I’ll just do it if I want”, forgetting there are other people beside you. This is not something you can just do and expect only you yourself to be affected if it is negative, you’re putting the lives of others at risk too.

But I’m thinking we’re going a little off-topic here. My point is that deleting something from the univers will have severe effects you wouldn’t even be thinking of, if the deletion triggered everything that object did in this universe to be deleted as well.

EDIT:

well, darkruler would be pissed off, because you caused a paradox.

I never said I hated paradoxes. I said you have to be careful.

I would remove my lack of friends IRL.

Greed. Then we could have communisms and anarchys and all would be good.

pffffff democracy
its a joke

You’d be surprised. Aside from the obvious negative things you’re removing, you’re also removing every single step he made, every little bump he did, every time he had even the slightest of impact on someone else’s life (a mere glance over your shoulder to look at him when he is calling too loudly while slowing down your movement, for example). You would honestly be surprised by the massive amount of changes you’re making when “deleting” a single thing from existence, along with the impacts it had on the universe.

I’m not denying that removing someone like him would change a lot of things, but I think choosing him over someone far more influential, like Hitler for example, who would seem an obvious choice, would be far less damaging to the universe.

authority

pmr

i love you too

Hate

scrambled egg, ha i’m kidding.
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the serious answer maybe the life itself