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Originally Posted by Ki
If you were given the choice, would you try to find your other selves and disrupt the natural way of things? I'm asking purely out of curiosity, because I think I would do it given the opportunity. I mentioned before that it'd be so much power that my mind wouldn't even be able to grasp the situation properly. It'd just be interesting to see what would happen as a result.
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I really don't think so. I mean, it would depend. If say I had contracted a rare disease by going to some foreign country, maybe I would advise Alternative Universe Trollheart (forever now known as AUT) not to do that. If it was to save his life or better it, maybe. But other than that I can't see any real reason I should interfere with him. I mean, AUT might be a white supremacist or a serial killer or a priest or like to wear dresses or be the founder of a death metal band, or even an AUT Merzbow. Some of these things I would probably THINK of changing, but why would I and who am I to do that? I don't know how his life, in his universe, is gonna change if I do that. Might be better, might be worse. Can't play God.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Why would you choose differently in another universe? If all of the same reasons why you crossed the bridge in universe A still exist, then why would you act differently in universe B?
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Well I already said, AUT might go back to his car for something, or have a sudden bout of indigestion and not want to walk anymore. He might get mugged, or hear someone scream and go to investigate. It might rain. He might suddenly, urgently need a crap. The possibilities are endless really, which is why every single decision you make in your life is exactly that: a decision to go one way or the other. Even look at TV. You might decide to watch a new show, get totally into it, so much so that you stop writing that novel you had intended to finish. AUT does not watch the show and becomes a famous novelist. It goes on and on...