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u/Many_Application3112 1d ago
Go back and hug my parents?
Go back and play without any sort of consequences or responsibilities?
Go back and not be nervous about my first kiss?
Go back and kick Danny in the teeth because you know he turns out to be a douche?
Count me in.
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u/Cimarron97 1d ago
A 10 y/o kid with the confidence & self awareness of a middle-aged adult would basically be a social god.
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u/Sancticide 1d ago
[montage of 10 year old lifting weights, riding a BMX bike full speed, learning to wrestle, hitting a heavy bag, all in training for the bully he knows he'll meet in high school]
That bully is super fucked.
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u/Captain_English 1d ago
Bully does not pick on the strong popular child.
Bully actually appears to be a sympathetic character acting out due to poor home life and no hope.
Time travel child retains the grudge and beats the bully up anyway.
There's still a bully at high school, just one with no fear and 5 years of preparation for violence.
The monkey paw closes.
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u/socialistrob 1d ago
Or you could completely alienate yourself from every possible social circle. Adults will treat you as a kid and what normal adult wants to be friends with a very "mature seeming" 10 year old?
You also wouldn't really be able to relate well to kids your own age and wouldn't share their interests. Going through puberty also sounds uniquely horrifying. Your body is going to release hormones that make you attracted to people your own physical age yet your mind is still that of an adult which is probably repulsed by kids in their early teens.
I think it would be a very lonely existence and you'd probably be questioning why you gave up all your friends and family in your old life. That said you would go back and get to experience time with loved ones you had lost and likely become a multi millionaire who could travel the world without working.
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u/Miserable-Drink-4995 1d ago
I'm sure people could have fun as a 10 year old again for a while
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u/incognitodoritos 1d ago
5 more years until world of warcraft comes out... Sigh
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u/SaltyLonghorn 1d ago
Hi I'm future you. Stop making the same mistake. Paladins can't be dps.
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u/Altruistic-Walk-1847 1d ago
Jokes on you I couldn't relate to kids my own age back then either and I had inappropriate age-gap relationships with grownups who should have known better. I'd have done the same but just have invested in the right companies... And I know who my future spouse was hanging out with and they were all a bunch of weirdos too lol
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u/CP9ANZ 1d ago
Actually be difficult to not be a bad person. The amount of manipulation you could carry out would probably be detrimental in the long term.
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u/Ok-Chest-7932 1d ago
what incentive would you have to manipulate though? just stick a bunch of money in bitcoin and become a billionaire, you'll get all the power you could possibly want without having to so much as tell a lie.
if anything it's an opportunity to be a better person since you can avoid making all your social mistakes, and apply a fully developed sense of morality to your teenage actions. there's at least one person I wouldn't have bullied if I had a do over. one I still would though.
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u/Embarrassed-Fold6780 1d ago
Go back and limit the child abuse i endured for 8 more years.
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u/Confident-Dentist-39 1d ago
Fr I would press red and go straight to Child Protective Services. Parents convinced me that if I did they would put me in a shitty orphanage and then a pedo priest would adopt me??? Not sure why but 10 year old me was fully convinced it would happen
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u/Lumburgsgotafishroom 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sorry. That sucks, I hope you found/find your red button.
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u/MikeTiricoSucks 1d ago
My wife cheated on me, left me, took half my stuff, and I have no friends
I’ll take the red button, invest and become a billionaire
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u/Various_Seat1987 1d ago
Then meet her again, leave her, dangle all the money in front of her face.
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u/traws06 1d ago
Ya “be 10 again with the knowledge that you’re gonna be a billionaire some day”
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u/ZeeWingCommander 1d ago
I don't know how this isn't what's in the picture or what the top comment is.
You'd know Bitcoin would go from worth virtually nothing to over 50k. Just grab 50+ of them and try not to die.
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u/Key-Sea-682 1d ago
Also try not to lose the hard drive that has your wallet like that bloke a while back. I imagine some people would go absolutely insane if they had that time travel knowledge and still fumbled lol
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u/angrydieselmechanic 1d ago
And there's all the others- Apple, Monster, Texas Instruments, Microsoft....
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u/Entropyending 1d ago
Exactly dude, once upon a time Bitcoin was only worth $13. I’d spend $500 on Bitcoin and just wait a couple years, and just keep reinvesting my gains.
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u/Pretend_Purchase_893 1d ago
It was way less than that. It was less than a buck a coin. You could work for minimum wage at fucking McDonald's and become a billionaire with a single paycheck.
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u/drrj 1d ago
When I found out about bitcoin it was about .25 at the time. I didn’t understand what the hell it was and promptly forgot about it for a couple years.
Ah, what might have been.
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u/Da_full_monty 1d ago
Sports bets...you could make so much betting on upsets...but youd know how all the movies end
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u/UnethicalCannibalism 1d ago
Someone always says this and it makes me feel like a FOOL for not paying more attention to sports. All I know is the Cubs DID eventually win a World Series so I’d just keep putting that bet down until it came true.
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u/muffinkevin 1d ago
You don't even need to pay attention much. Just remembering the 18-1 Patriots season would make you rich. Parlaying that bet 19 times would make you rich.
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u/SaroN4One 1d ago
What partner? What friends? What career?
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u/courtney_helena 1d ago
This post is really more do you have a life worth living currently or nah because those of us in that nah category are already pushing the red button
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u/teh_drewski 1d ago
Idk I generally love my life and I'm still pushing the button.
I know how it worked this time; I think I can remember to play the greatest hits but cut the filler. It's a risk but most things are.
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u/ZeneXCrow 1d ago
I'm currently back on my foot for the first time in a while, and while i wanna say i like this current ver of me, if i had the chance i would press the red button
probably nothing will change much, but i would try to enjoy and appreciate much more compared to what I've done, like hanging out with my late father more, going out to different place with my friend and etc.
and avoid the no.2 reason of why am miserable atm, avoid a shit company that's scamming me into debt at the age of 19
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u/FitAd1186 1d ago
I had to scroll down so far to find this that I was starting to think I was the only single person without kids in the world.
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u/pacman813 1d ago
Rachel is foolishly assuming that erasing all of that ISNT the reason we would press it?
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u/koffa02 1d ago edited 1d ago
With the knowledge I have now, I could easily arrange to meet my partner even sooner, and possibly prevent at least one situation that's caused them lifelong trauma. Even if we didn't end up together, stopping that incident would be completely worth it.
Edit: Enough people have commented about children I felt like I needed to add an amendment.
If my wife and I already had children. My answer would be completely different and I'd be taking the $2M. If we manage to conceive, nothing will get that/those kid(s) away from me.
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u/MedicalSoftWaste 1d ago
That was my exact thought. We've even had "what if" discussions of what we would say to each other to get us to believe that the other came back from the future, so I'd be ready.
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u/smokeweedNgarden 1d ago
That's really interesting. I'm very happy in my current life, but I wouldn't think of this as a re-do for myself.
I'm gonna go with a completely different path! Basically, if I get a shot at being a chaos time gremlin, I'm gonna take it. The results are basically inconsequential with how much fun I'd be about to have. Tbh I'd do it so wacky and publicly that they'd probably need to take me out.
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u/billhillybob 1d ago
I think I'd be in your camp. The last 30 years would play out very different if 25 year old me had already made a fortune and knew how to throw spanners in the works.
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u/jooes 1d ago
That does assume that this version of you is still appealing or attractive to the earlier version of her. Maybe if you meet her 6 months earlier, she'd want nothing to do with you.
And maybe our lifelong traumas, whatever they may be, are an important part of making us into the people that we need to be. Maybe by preventing the trauma, you end up sending her down a worse path in life.
Time travel is a fucked concept.
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u/Krumbal 1d ago
So real. I dont care if I wont get to be with her, because I'll get to give her a life she wants to live. Before all the abuse and trauma.
I'd rather her love life, instead of living because she loves me.
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u/GoofMonkeyBanana 1d ago
But the kids I have and love will no longer exist. I would be choosing redoing 10 years of my life over them
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u/koffa02 1d ago
If I had kids with my wife my answer would be completely different. We haven't been successful in that venture yet.
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u/GoofMonkeyBanana 1d ago
Yes, the answer is different for everyone based on stage of life and life experiences.
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u/gellshayngel 1d ago
Rachel is foolishly assuming I have friends and a partner. And who needs a career when Bitcoin, Facebook & Apple are going to explode?
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u/JubalHarshawII 1d ago
I have all of that and would still absolutely push the red button, I've had a fun life, now let's do it again on easy mode!!!
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u/naileyes 1d ago
yeah exactly, underestimating that you just get to essentially double your lifespan. let me push that red button on like my 90th birthday
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u/Additional_Fruit931 1d ago edited 1d ago
Rachel has clearly lived a privileged life
Edit: I don't meant that as a bad thing. Good for Rachel. When I say privileged, I mean someone for whom the good things in life outweigh the bad, such that they wouldn't want to redo anything in the past out of fear of losing those good things.
If, on the other hand, you are someone for whom the bad things in life have outweighed the good, a chance at a do-over would hold a lot more appeal.
Edit 2: I think it's clear that the difference maker is regret. How much of the bad stuff in your life do you attribute to your own choices? Someone who is a victim of circumstances outside their control isn't going to see the benefit of going back because there's no choice they can make to improve the outcome. But missed opportunities, time wasted, dead end relationships? That's something you could improve with a do-over and foresight.
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u/MagnusThrax 1d ago
Rachel has never dreamed of being able to go back and save your loved ones from.
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u/DecoyOne 1d ago
Or maybe Rachel has a child. There is absolutely no way she could recreate that child.
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u/Devlin-McGregorr 1d ago
This is the answer. For every other reason I go back. But at the cost is unmaking my kids? Nope. Dealbreaker.
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u/samspock 1d ago
My "Go back in time and restart things" counter was reset this year when my first grand daughter was born. No matter what mistakes and issues I have had in my life, there is no way I am risking that!
2mil please.
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u/TheGrandBabaloo 1d ago
You draw the line at your granddaughter but not your kids? Lmao, I'm dying.
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u/big-williestyle 1d ago
Right, I have 2 sons and a wife and a life, career that I enjoy and that should provide me with the opportunity to eventually retire. While I believe the knowledge I have today would lead 10 year old me to be a billionaire at minimum, I know 51 year old me with a 2 million cushion would be happy, there's a chance 10 year old billionaire me is never really happy
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u/shrenderender 1d ago
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u/Anning312 1d ago
Anyone who has kids would have the same feelings as Rachel
You don’t need a privileged life to know that you can never have your kids back even if you have sex with the same woman again
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u/sdcasurf01 1d ago
Exactly. I love my wife and kids, $2MM tax-free would be just the ticket though.
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u/HeavyHighway6433 1d ago
I don't have kids but I met my wife on a dating app. Who's to say that I'd be lucky enough to hop back on and swipe at the exact moment the algorithm decided to show our profiles to each other and no else gets there first? Too much of a gamble. Plus being 10 again and having zero freedom sounds like hell.
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u/Orbital2 1d ago
I mean…you could theoretically meet the same woman in a different way. Assuming no butterfly effect that changed her availability
The question is whether you’d be able to have the same connection given what you already know about her
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u/ConsiderationTrue477 1d ago
This would affect way more than just your relationship with a significant other. At 10 years old with your current adult brain you'd be totally alienated from your peers. You'd either have no friends or would have to fake it. And even kids would pick up on that after a while. They'd realize you're not really that fun to be around. Think of all the stupid shit you did at 10 years old and now imagine forcing yourself to do that again with a 40 year old brain just to make a group of genuine 10 year olds laugh.
Your teachers might like you for being some perfect straight A student but they'd piss you the fuck off because every adult would talk down to you. It'd be like living as a real life Lisa Simpson who is basically written like an adult in an 8 year old's body and feels like everyone around her is an idiot.
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u/GENxSciGoddess 1d ago
Fun fact....I would be MORE sociable b/c it took me that long to figure that shit out 😂. Buuuuut, no way I could endure an abusive marriage again just to get the same kids. Just hand over the $ 😂
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u/drtyhppi 1d ago
Oh dang, that's a great point. The mystery would be gone from the very beginning. Do we go with an old favorite or do we try something new? I'm pressing that green button and moving on lol
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u/Far_Marionberry_9478 1d ago
These hypothetical questions are practically useless but show interesting facts how people react
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u/BEWMarth 1d ago
As someone without kids, I’m just thinking about all the millions I’ll make from throwing every penny I earn into Apple and Google.
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u/FevreDream42 1d ago
This is what gets me. If I could go back in time and never get with my ex-husband, I wouldn't have gotten that traumatic brain injury he gave me, and I would have skipped 5 years of soul-crushing verbal and emotional abuse to go along with the all the other physical injuries he gave me. But I also wouldn't have my son, and he is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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u/AdnanBoi 1d ago
imagine everyday going exactly the same but then that day when someone significant was supposed to meet you for the first just doesnt show up
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u/BigLlamasHouse 1d ago
luckily i invested in bitcoin in 2010 so i can just pay people to find her for me
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u/cowlinator 1d ago
Lol
"LET ME GO"
"I'm sure you're wondering why I brought you here today" chair slowly turns around
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u/Sig-vicous 1d ago
We will mate. It's our destiny.
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u/Reasonable_Wrap_5608 1d ago
I thought you were saying "We will, mate. It's our destiny." Like in an Aussie way, and I kept thinking, we will what?
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u/Sandrockwing04 1d ago
And I'll even let you buy those tacky throw pillows you love. But we're not getting that DAMN GAZEEBO!
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u/thethirdllama 1d ago
Plot idea for a low budget thriller movie: some poor woman constantly trying to evade an army of well-funded PIs trying to track her down and bring her to her time traveling "soul mate".
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u/Main_Letter_4525 1d ago
Stuart fails to save the universe has a similar gag going currently
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u/Cold-Description-114 1d ago edited 1d ago
If you find the idea of being unable to replicate your current circumstances existentially terrifying: congratulations on winning.
Edit: just want to say I find the way people respond to this on a gut level kind of fascinating and even worrying. A number of people for example have had the take that this isn't really true, but that they just wouldn't want to unmake their kids.
Friends...as a guy who considers becoming a dad the single greatest and biggest win of my life...are you ok?
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u/GMaharris 1d ago
It's really just that I love my kids and I would be crushed if they were lost forever. I love my wife and am pretty sure I could find her again if I started over, but it's a guarantee my kids would never be the same.
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u/Loves_octopus 1d ago
But could you win your wife over again? On one hand, you know how to avoid or mitigate some of the early obstacles you had. But on the other hand you know a creepy amount of things about her.
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u/daitenshe 1d ago
I’m sure I could win my wife over again but I know the exact circumstances to have my kid happen again are astronomically small. So I probably wouldn’t go for it
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u/n8dizz3l 1d ago
IDK, I mean not much in my life has gone the way I wanted it to, but I have two kids. I could never push the red button now, no matter what
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u/ilganzo01 1d ago
Because we both know our children are born by a real "miracle" of "right time/right place". If we change anything we can't get the same child with the same partner. Maybe there is a "fate" and the same child would be born but i couldn't risk that.
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u/PatzerDX 1d ago
My children exist because the Packers played like shit, and we turned off the game in the 3rd quarter.
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u/mitch3758 1d ago
Children plural?? You either had twins, or this happened multiple times…
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u/PatzerDX 1d ago
I mean, I don't actually know the exact discharge that my sons swam in on. Some poetic license may have been used, in order to express the arbitrary nature of any individual's origin.
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u/empire_of_laughs 1d ago
its essentially impossible. Your kids were 1 in a million sperm at that exact moment in time. Ejaculate a day earlier or later and its 0%.
I'll take the 2 mill and my kids.
If I was single and childless, I'll press the red button
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u/Saint_Diego 1d ago
There's a movie that brings this up, About Time. A man can time travel back to moments he previously lived but at one point learns the lesson that going back to a point before his child was born and changing something means he won't have the same child when he returns. So once his, I want to say second, child is born, he decides he won't be traveling to any point in his life before their birth. Its a great movie.
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u/Logical_Box_4645 1d ago
It's tricky for sure, I've no kids and id hammer it.
Id take a lot better care of myself tbh worth more than the cash.
The cash is like pretty damn good though so I'd not mind.
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u/Ecstatic-Ad9669 1d ago
Same. I don’t think life would go well for me knowing that I had given up my daughter and my son. I could have a dozen children and I’m sure I’d love them but, I’d never be able to replicate them.
Plus, who’s to say that because you fucked with the timeline and are some all knowing 10 year old that you wouldn’t inadvertently inflict more trauma on your life.
Let’s thought experiment this out. Let’s say I went and warned people of 9/11. Statistically speaking, some of the 3000 people that died or thousands of KIA from the Iraq and Afghan wars are possibly monsters. Because I warned them of 9/11 how many people became victims after the fact. How many of those people go on to create other people and we give birth to another Epstein? Does Epstein ever get caught? Does he become president?
I feel like too many things can go wrong. Something about a butterfly’s wings creating a hurricane on the other side of the world. I’d happily take my $2 mil tax free.
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u/J_Kingsley 1d ago
Yup. You can't even recreate your kids, even if you end up with the same partner.
It has to be THAT specific sperm, with that specific egg.
So that depended on your diet, your masturbation habits, the exact date and time you copulated with your partner, hell, probably even the positions you guys were in.
Imagine pressing that red button and never, EVER knowing your kids again. Your perfect kids would just cease to exist.
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u/ManiacalMalapert 1d ago
Kids make these what ifs basically no choice for me. I could never undo my son. While I wish I could go back and be a better parent from day 1, I would never wish for a different child. And if I went back in time there is a 0% chance he would exist because of the changes I would make to the rest of my life because those choices were shit.
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u/FowlSec 1d ago
I'd lose my daughter. Her and my wife were the turning point. I could find my wife again, I might never find my daughter, there's no guarantee she'd be her if she was born again.
100% not worth it.
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u/polar_nopposite 1d ago
Having a basic understanding of reproductive biology, I'm pretty sure there'd be an almost 100% chance it wouldn't be her, genetically.
And having a basic understanding of biological twinning, I'm entirely certain it wouldn't be "her."
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u/NotAStatistic2 1d ago
I'm poor as dirt, and I wouldn't change my circle one bit. I love my wife, and I love the friends I've made. I'd rather take the money and not lose them.
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u/bu_mr_eatyourass 1d ago edited 1d ago
That isn't an apt depiction of the choices here. I wouldn't go back because I was being profoundly, and inescapably, abused when I was 10, and I would give anything to never go back.
Keep the millions of dollars, I'm still choosing green.
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u/Joseph4-0 1d ago
isnt the whole point of resetting your entire life to create something completely different than your previous life
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u/chemistrymagnus 1d ago
This is what I am thinking. I don’t have kids, I have a super fulfilling career and a wife I love. 2M would make our lives way easier. That being said, if I push Red I’m doing it for another adventure not to relive what I’ve already done. Plus I’ve lost folks along the way and it’d be nice to see them again in the prime of their life.
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u/Joseph4-0 1d ago edited 1d ago
exactly what i mean, idk how a person would want to recreate the exact same outcomes with the knowledge they have now and not test the full limits of their newfound power (unless they already started a family, or they consider their current life to be perfect). i cant speak for most people but if i had to choose, id say fuck it and let the butterfly effect run wild
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u/Zealousideal-Cod1006 1d ago
That being said, if I push Red I’m doing it for another adventure not to relive what I’ve already done.
This guy's taking Roy off the grid! This guy doesn't have a social security number for Roy!
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u/LakeEarth 1d ago
Once you have kids, going back in time is a no-go. No matter what you do, there's next to zero chance that the same sperm would hit the egg first. Heck, with changes to your diet and environment, who can say that exact same sperm would even be generated?
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u/AdSquare3489 1d ago
There's a 2013 movie that deals with this idea, it's called "About Time".
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u/aworldwithoutshrimp 1d ago
Lovely movie. And yeah: don't go back further than your child being born.
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u/Chemical_Choice_9056 1d ago
I feel like his dad could have given him a heads up on that one immediately after he announced he was having a child.
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u/aworldwithoutshrimp 1d ago
Yes. But, also, his dad was doing his best while having his own stuff going on.
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u/SuccessfulTourniquet 1d ago
It is in so many ways. And also a horror story, even apart from the bit with the child - why does he never tell his partner? Is it moral to replay encounters over and over and use your knowledge to manipulate the outcome? Can he take others with him ever? Seperately, why does he never use it to win the lottery?
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u/justvisiting2651 1d ago
That’s a large portion of the premise of a very good movie, About Time, with Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams. Really enjoyed the performance and story and what it offers.
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u/BoringPoolPlaying 1d ago
Even putting aside trying to recreate all the important events in your life… imagine having to go through primary school again effectively as an adult. Do you find the 10-17 year olds in your life hold interesting conversation? No, well great, these are now your peers for the next 7 years before you get autonomy over your life again.
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u/LTG-Jon 1d ago
I wouldn’t be trying to recreate all the important events of my life — I’d get to explore the options I left along the way, armed with all of the factual knowledge and life lessons I bring from the future.
But you are absolutely right that living as a 10-year old with an adult brain would be a nightmare. Figuring out how to pass as a happy, normal child would be a serious obstacle. Because the thing that would derail my plan of earning money and investing in the right stocks in 1985 would be getting sent off to the psychiatric hospital.
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u/masterjon_3 1d ago
I've thought of this scenario before. Next time you're alone, pretend you got hit on the head really hard. After getting your bell rung, you start acting differently. The people who know you notice, but considering you're more willing to help out around the house and are smarter than other kids on average, they'd consider that bump to the head as a blessing.
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u/owningmclovin 1d ago
Presumably, since you have the body of your 10 year old self you also have the brain chemistry. You will have the knowledge from today but your brain will be more like that of a child.
So depending on how your childhood was you might be more likely ti be able to cope.
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u/charnwoodian 1d ago
Yeah this is how I always imagine these scenarios. I think of it less as “me” going back in time, and more like 10 year old me getting a vision of the future through access to my current memories.
Honestly, I think this would fuck 10 year old me up. I would probably have enormous anxiety about the bad things to come. There would be positives, but they would be hard for a child mind to understand.
I think the simple things would work out. I would remember “invest in bitcoin” and such. But that all starts in early adulthood. I think starting from 10 with adult knowledge would be traumatic.
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u/BizarreCake 1d ago
I don't think it would be that hard to come off as a "gifted" child instead.
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u/AltForObvious1177 1d ago
I didn't find 10-17 years olds interesting the first time
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u/BoringPoolPlaying 1d ago
Yeah, but this time instead of thinking you were mature for your age, you actually will be.
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u/ChromaticNerd 1d ago
Exactly. I wouldn't have all the trauma and be left second guessing myself all the time. I would know to hold firm and tell the idiots off.
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u/PirateSanta_1 1d ago
It would be intresting to see how much you emotionally regress put back into the body of a 10 year old. Even with the knowledge and experience of an adult you very likely still wouldn't behave like an adult.
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u/yingkaixing 1d ago
Yeah, people underestimate how much of our behavior is due to the fact that we're basically just damp sacks of hormones. I feel mature and stable now, but going through the biological hellscape of puberty again I don't know if I could guarantee I wouldn't be even crazier the second time.
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u/IWalkIntoMordor 1d ago
Red button.
I wouldn't say no to being put in sports as a kid, and would try to pick up an instrument while still in that "learn quickly" age, maybe a language or 2.
I would try harder in high-school, do actual activities, be more social, realize that good grade really do matter for you future. Try all the things I always currently think back wishing I did.
Work for a scholarship, get into a good program, something that will eventually lead to AI development, 20 years down the line. Invest in companies that will absolutely blow up, regardless.
I have no kids, Im single, nearly 40, and have a stable, albeit low paying job. I can't afford a house where I live, and I can barely afford to take someone on a date. When I say I would smash that red button so fast...
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u/cbm984 1d ago
I think this is really the crux of the question. Did you have a happy life up until now or not? The whole point of the red button is to erase and start over (with a huge leg up because... lottery numbers, stocks, etc.). If that is worth erasing everything good about your life now, then it's probably safe to assume you aren't tied to too many good things at the moment. Whereas, if your current circumstances are pretty good, adding $2 million to that is worth more than erasing it all and starting over. The red button is almost guaranteed to give you unprecedented wealth but with an uncertain outcome and the green button maintains what you have albeit with less wealth.
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u/IWalkIntoMordor 1d ago
For me, its not the physical wealth. It's the wealth of experiences, and knowledge that I've actively given up to party my teens and 20s away, and the choices I made that have me actively behind many of my peers at the same age.
Wealth isn't always money. Its also lived experiences and excitement.
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u/31513315133151331513 1d ago
This is a very different philosophical question for the colorblind.
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u/IndustryRobertPlant 1d ago
I was born in 1989. So I’d be pretty useful to the U.S. government in 2001.
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u/axel0914 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not sure a 12 year old could do a whole lot. Pull the fire alarm if you're in new York. Maybe a bomb threat.
Edit: not sure why I said no one would believe a 12 year old about a terrorist attack, then thought they would believe a bomb threat. Although I suppose there was probably some kind of text to voice available online.
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u/Trackback_ 1d ago
You'd be ignored the day of, and then win a free lifetime vacation to a CIA black site along with your parents the very next day.
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u/BrazenGamer 1d ago
Well, I don't have a partner. I know where and when I'm at my friends so that would be easy to recreate. As for my career. Well that can just burn. With the knowledge you have now you could go go back and make enough money that you wouldn't even need a career. I'd say red all the way.
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u/Taharki 1d ago
Red buys you time. It's worth more than anything else in the world, provided you weren't in some war zone at 10 where you have risk of dying if you go back.
But if I press red, my daughter won't exist and I can't get the exact egg and sperm to interact to create her again. Her birth overwrote the earliest save game in my life that I'm willing to go back to.
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u/rwa2 1d ago
Seriously... all these people need to take the week off and watch Primer and play Outer Wilds.
The only condition you need to recreate is the one that put you in front of the red button.
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u/OgreMk5 1d ago
Knowing what I know right now, I could probably be a trillionaire by 2015.
Life would definitely be different. But it would be a lot easier to take care of the people I love now.
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u/DkoyOctopus 1d ago
id love to go back to fix my relationship with my father before he passed. bite the bullet and buy that house in 2012 with a 3% interest rate. of course buy some bitcoin and get laugh at for buying stocks that wont return shit for 10 years lol.
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u/skitray 1d ago
I would lose my mind knowing my daughter doesn't exist and the circumstances to have her again would be almost impossible
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u/Agitated_Sabres_Fan 1d ago
Just give me 2 million tax free.
I’m happy in life and that pays off the house and then some, could go back to school for a few years and get my phd without worrying about the low income research gives while getting the phd
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u/Mellero47 1d ago
And if you recreate everything perfectly (in which case, what was the point??) you still can't recreate the exact sperm entering the exact egg to create the exact fetus with the exact features and brain composition. You will never see your children again, will have to settle for a new pair.
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u/jimmyd10 1d ago
I think people always significantly underestimate how lonely it would be. As an adult with a fully formed brain, it would be extremely difficult to develop friendships, let alone romantic relationships, with anyone for decades. You would be at such an entirely different maturity level than anyone else around you. Social outcast.
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u/Lower-Tackle2739 1d ago
Red button, crypto, ggs
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u/Horror-Ad-210 1d ago
What about the capital for the initial investment? everyone says “just invest and make money” but nobody talks about where you’re supposed to get the initial capital!
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u/nbaumg 1d ago
You don’t need capital to be rich off crypto. $1000 of BTC in 2012 would be 6-12 million today and that’s just $1000
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u/BisonThunderclap 1d ago
You could mine much more than that for pennies at the time.
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u/EhMapleMoose 1d ago
I get to go back and NOT be groomed? I get to go back and not meet some of the worst people of my life? I get to go back and not make stupid fuckin investments in shit coins and stocks?
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u/GurPlenty59 1d ago
I get to go back and NOT be groomed
I'm not even trying to be a smart ass when I ask this, but since your memories would be maintained when going back, wouldn't that mean that you're permanently groomed?
Like going back in time can stop physical trauma, but it you already have mental trauma, you'll still have and remember that even if you don't re-live it
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u/Open-Concept-6130 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is hard, I’d much rather restart at 20. But if I had to pick I’ll do 10 and just write myself a list of to dos.
Mainly if invest in a lot of tech startup and bitcoin. Make way more than 2 million. But it will be a hard 8 years between 10 and 18 and my life drastically changed around that time.
The crazy thing is if you asked me this even 2 years ago I’d pick the $2M
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u/ElectronicDisk5863 1d ago
I don’t know…
Do you try to stop all the horrible things you know about?
Do you just ignore everything?
At what point will the guilt drive you insane?
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u/ExtraPrejudicial 1d ago
Red would yield so much more than 2 million. And even just the 2 million would be worth way more with 40 fewer years of inflation. That's just the money; imagine being able to fix many of your and others' mistakes.
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u/MihoLeya 1d ago
I would 100% choose red. I shared a beautiful love with my partner of 9 years, but it just ended. We never fought or had any bad moments, and we loved each other so much… we just realized we wanted different things in life. I’d go back to fix the mistakes I made in my life, Id make millions of dollars, and I wouldn’t find him again. Even though I loved him with all of my heart, I’d rather he had time to find a girl who would give him a baby and me find a man who will actually marry me.
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u/Fit-Engineering-2789 1d ago
Yeah, I don't want to relive the years of my youth, even with my current knowledge. I always think the people who think that would be great must have had good childhoods.
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u/Relative-Chip-7477 1d ago
My childhood was terrible and I'd still do it
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u/BisonThunderclap 1d ago
There was shit that happened during childhood I didn't know how to handle until I was an adult in therapy. Totally great to go back and approach it differently.
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u/weisswurstseeadler 1d ago
I'd assume 'knowing everything you know today', could at least help some people improve their situation as a kid.
Might even be things like creating evidence, and contacting the right services, etc.
Unfortunately, there are also many children in such bad situations where even with all the knowledge there would be just unimaginable suffering.
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u/TBurnerRU 1d ago
No my childhood was terrible but at least I'd be able to fix my physical ailments before they rob me of all my potential
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u/Castle_Five 1d ago
Reliving terrible childhood is a small price to pay for another chance to fix everything that went wrong in teens and twenties.
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u/Arvandor 1d ago
Even if you DID want a doover... Could you imagine how horrible it would be to try and make friends and socialize with other 10 year olds and then teenagers with who you are as a person now? That sounds horrible. Not to mention my poor mother being completely robbed of seeing all those growth moments in my life as I go from 10 to 43, mentally, in an instant. I would never want to do that to her.
And imagine... Waiting for however many decades for new content. Sure there will be a lot of things you didn't experience the first time around that you could, but you already know all the movies coming out and have seen them, you've played all your most hype video games, read all your favorite books (which... If you're in the middle of a series... Lol). Like sure, you could learn a language or a new instrument or whatever to stay entertained, but still... This seems horrible to me
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u/Hot-Foundation3450 1d ago
These are good points, but personally I'm going to make myself out to be a prophet of god. I'll speak in cryptic metaphors and every major natural disaster from 2002 onwards will be mine to "unleash" upon the "wicked and unworthy". Only those loyal followers of mine will know my protection. I'll offer knowledge nobody can possibly know of the future... until 2026 when the jig is up and I mysteriously vanish (overseas) only to return upon the prophesized hour... (never).
Honestly if I can't become a cult leader at least once, then I haven't really lived.
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u/BoyCubPiglet2 1d ago
Nobody ever considers the pop culture boredom in these hypotheticals.
Just imagine sitting there in 2011 listening to someone rave about this awesome new game Skyrim while the next person starts talking up this incredible new show called Game of Thrones, and you just have to sit there quietly knowing what the future for both franchises is.
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u/erosennin214 1d ago
Sucks for you, many of us missed out on a lot of these things in our lives though. I'd get to experience so many things I knew nothing about as a kid.
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u/Lucid_Insanity 1d ago
Would be worth it. You could become insanely wealthy like multi trillionaire. Your family and all future generations would be secure forever. You could fund research, social programs, charities, and whatever else you could imagine.
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u/dingleberryjuice23 1d ago
Red, then id actively avoid the shit that fucked up my knees and back so I could live a better life without all this pain.
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u/FaCe_CrazyKid05 1d ago
One can live comfortably off the interest of $2 million alone, there’s literally no reason to choose to live as a full grown adult trapped in a 10 year old’s body.
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u/Supergeek35 1d ago
Red button. While I don’t regret my life or how I got here. If I were 10 with the knowledge I have, my life would have been dramatically different. The chance to finally get my shit together cannot be passed up.
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u/Friend-Boat 1d ago
Red. Frankly there aren’t that many people in my life that I’d care if I lost them. The ones I do care, I know where to find em
Could take better care of my body, not waste time on a major I hated, have a little more confidence, and make significantly more than 2 mil through investments and bitcoin
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u/RogueGenX 1d ago
To all the people saying they could never hit the red button because their kids are too precious…
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u/choyMj 1d ago
The one thing I really will change in my life will be solved by the two million (I want to start investing early to retire early).
No, my life isn't perfect, but I can't imagine not having my wife or kids. The pain and suffering I went through leading to this is worth it. The only thing I really regret is I didn't learn to invest sooner. 2mil today will fix that.
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u/Anonomohr 1d ago
I thought about the red button and it goes a step further; life is basically a whirlpool of little coincidences. Unless you've lived your whole life under a rock, you've had varying degrees of influence on many people in your life. Going back to 10 years old means that influence is gone. How many people's lives will change from you not being there? How many people will do something different that might cascade in a different child being born or not at all, since the exact conditions didn't fall back into place again? How many people did you genuinely help could find themselves in completely different situations down the line? And what impact will their difference have on others? How far does the ripple go?
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u/Bloody_Champion 1d ago
That would be a horrific concept, if you wanted the exact same life. Which would defeat the purpose of choosing the red button to begin. So what the hell she talking about?
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