After realizing that you would have answered 'Yes' in Zero's Poll (which is the most likely case seeing the results now), you go mad from the revelation that the hours sunk to this site could've been used elsewhere. You decide to travel back to the past to when you were first about to come here to persuade yourself not to goto the forums.
With a gun.
Because any other way wouldn't be as dramatic now, would it?
Assumptions:
- Future!You is now threatening Past!You to stop visiting SP. He cannot be convinced not to shoot. He will always shoot to kill.
- The consequences of shooting or not shooting Past!You depends on your belief of how time works. Possible futures:
a) ANewFuture!You lives on and Future!You will fade/cease to exist no matter what track Past!You decides.
b) ANewFuture!You and Future!You live on in the same timeline if Past!You lives. Future!You will just belong to a disjointed timeline.
c) You all merge into one Singularity!You and the future is uncertain.
d) Suggest Ad Infinitum
- The "Negotiation Time" is always different but generally in every possibility, the time takes 10 seconds to 2 minutes before the Decision is reached. Laws of Nature, Time, Space, and All That Shit forbid the time to go beyond this duration.
- Since Future!You is from a certain Future, he cannot be convinced that he will disappear/change because he is from the Future where none of that happens.
Now knowing all that (from experiencing multiple paradoxes in the past), let's say you ultimately decide to go back to You!Prime and end it once and for all. Hence, the title of this thread. The question simplified is will you:
a) Just never have gone in the first place. No gun is on your head. This is You!Prime. The You that started it all. Never going, prevents all of the above from happening. The future would be certain.
OR
b) Still go, knowing the above will happen. Even if it takes an eternity to resolve. There is always a possibility. SP is worth that risk. Mind you, this doesn't give you infinite retries. It just gives you a chance but the resolution is still uncertain.
Discuss.