Saturday question #10: Undo…what?
Written on April 11, 2009 in Saturday Questions & with 26 responses
Tags: history, saturday question, undo, what if
Welcome to the 10th edition of Saturday questions.
So, last week's question was the most successful so far. This week, we're taking a break from music and we'll be a bit more unrealistic. Why? And why not? According to previous weeks' statistics, people do enjoy these as well, given the matters discussed on the forum and in music people might listen.
You can undo one thing in history - may it be the recent history, something centuries ago, something global or something that's known only to you. What would you undo?
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I don't think I would, because every same mistake will be made anyway...
the holocaust
i agree with you but think about it: because of the holocaust the jewish people got the right to have a state of their own so something good came out of something bad. i believe that evreything in life has a reason we don't understand it.
yeah but I'm not sure what they would choose. Millions of deaths but an own state, or "peace and quiet" but scattered. But yes, you are right somewhere too.
but the state the founded was taken land from the palastinians. Now the Palastinians live separated behind walls and were treated in a way which isn't that far away from theese horrible 12 years. Im not sure if the jewish government behaves so human as this black and white point of view may suggest.
But i would choose Holocaust too to UNDO!!!! Actually all the holocausts worldwide in history and for future.
Please, cut this conversation and do not lead everyone on to what you think is important.
I agree about the Holocaust and there's nothing to question there, but let's not discuss the current issues. We obviously have to accept the fact that some people are blindly obsessed with the countries they live in and thinking they're the only ones who ever had it bad and, if we'd discuss e.g. what happens to poor people who starve in North Korea or Darfur, that would be ten thousand times more important.
Take it from me, I come from Balkans and I don't talk about 90s and current unsolved issues to every single person I meet, nor I'd want to.
I think we should like the world like it is and not say "it would have been better" because we never know and because that's in making mistakes than we can learn to make things better.
But for the game, I'd say colonization between the 16th and the 20th century, because it was inhuman and it has let deep wounds.
Hihi!
Agreed 
I don't think I would undo anything because everything that has happened has made the world what it is today, whether it's good or bad, but yeah just for the sake of the question, I'd say I'd undo mankind's discovery of recreational drugs, it'd be interesting to see what the world would be without them (not that I think they're all terrible and they all destroy the world or anything though)
the beginning of humanity
Yeah, I also think that everything happens with a certain reason [though sometimes it doesn't seem like that]. I don't regret things I do; I could only regret something I didn't do..right now, I can't think of any example
edit: "and if anything unfolds - it's supposed to"
Well, I wouldn't change everything...but the question isn't "would you change anything" but is "what would you change if you had to change one thing?" Or at least...it makes the question more fun if it is interpreted that way.
I would probably go back and stop John Bonham from drinking so much, so that he wouldn't have died the day he did, and Led Zep would still be around. With Zeppelin still moving they would have done so much for music. It is a double edged sword though...one of the reasons Zeppelin, Hendrix, Nirvana ect... are so legendary is that they stopped pretty much in their prime...they didn't have time to get old and sucky. But it would be worth the risk for just 2 or 3 more good albums....and hell, who says they have to get worse as they get older? That is just a trend with hard rock musicians, doesn't mean it can't be broken.
I'd undo the internet just to see how the world would cope without it.
most things i'd want to change would be big mistakes that people have made, although as we all know, people learn from their mistakes and it (more often than not) takes someone to push the boundries - bad things happen etc but. people learn from their mistakes and eventually those mistakes will be made. its a crushing inevitability... there are way to many people on this planet to say that if we go back and for example, 'erase hitler from the history books' there would be some other idiot in the world that would be like him and make the same mistakes eventually. and we learn from things like that. it makes us who we are and it makes us the developed race we are today. humans evolve into the people we are and choose our own destinies by the choices/mistakes we make (or we see others making) as we grow up. thats my opinion... i dunno?
The invention of the very first religion.
The day the internet was conceived.
The death of kurt cobain...RIP kurt.
agree with thanos...
Yoko Ono. 'Nuff said.
Mine would have to be George Bush becomming president.I dont have a problem with America nor did I when Bush was president but I just think things would have been better without him.
The passing of Shannon Hoon...
I would like to change the fact that we relay on animal flesh as food.
I wish we had more environmental and human approach to life, change the priorities of the human race to learn to look ahead, on the global interest of our planet, instead of the immediate benefit.
I also agree with many of you- the holocaust shouldn't have happened. nowhere.
Would be nice to still have around: Shannon Hoon, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, John Lennon, Hillel Slovack (although it might have changed John's destiny..) and many more..
On the more personal approach, I wish I was born on time to be grouing up in the sixties!!!
I suppose the two things I would change are the advent of global warming and destruction of the enviroment; and the slavery of Africans in the late 17th - 19th (century in some places). 30 million slaves were taken during this time, but in that process, over 200 million Africans were killed (I'm not certain of the number, it varies through different sources, but that seems to be the general figure).
"what i don't do will get done by somebody"
I wouldn't change a thing. People did and will do things that they feel is "right" under the circumstances that are presented to them. We have to learn from the mistakes that were made in the past. We've got to look to the future to see how we best can make it better. I'm sure future generations will be ill at us for the mistakes we're making and will make.