Originally published at: Have you committed a Time Crime? Maybe you will… | Boing Boing
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Remember, if you subscribe to the notion that an ordinary person making small changes in the past could have a profound impact on the shape of the present then logically you should also recognize that you, an ordinary person, have the power to make changes today that could have a profound impact on the shape of the future.
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If you can’t do the crime, don’t do the time.
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Well, I’ve never stepped on any butterflies, but do frogs and lizards count?
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The “Time Travelers” union shall here of this, in the near future.
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Or the distant past?
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You may well have just saved your great¹⁰⁰⁰-grandchildren from enslavement by reptilian overlords. On the downside, now there won’t be anyone to save us from the fly-people. So kind of a wash.
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Ah ha!
I read A Sound of Thunder way way back in the day. Rings way to true now. Fuck whoever stepped on the fucking butterfly!
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I want to commit a time crime, but…
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Speaking of Time Crime, Timecrimes is a great time travel movie.
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I have tried many times to commit a crime tomorrow.
Future-me keeps butting in.
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Future-me is committing a time crime right now.
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Future-me is a cop, and he knows what you’re up to.
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Oh? Future-you shouldn’t have told you that, now Future-me is going to have already blackmailed them into turning a blind-eye to Future-me’s crime with the threat of reporting them for corruption of your personal timeline.
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And now you have let that slip to present-me, future-me is forewarned to your nefarious blackmail plans.
By the time you read this, future-you will be behind bars.
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The trouble with being a Time Cop is that it is always three days to retirement.
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Past me has stolen so much from present me, even as I steal from my own future…
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Well now I’ve realised that time crime doesn’t pay, and looked up to see future-me fade out of existence just as he was about to purchase the winning tickets in several lotteries.
Hold on… I think you are the time cop, using your 2022-self’s account to bait me into this conversation and come to that realisation. What an elegantly simple adjustment, ngl I’m not even mad.
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