Oorjit Sethi's Blog

Time travel. Sounds like the ultimate power. But time travel isn’t just about revisiting the past—it’s a Pandora’s box of ethical dilemmas   and moral paradoxes that shake up our fundamental ideas of what we consider to be right. If we just take a peek at the idea, it seems like walking the road of time would let us prevent disasters, or meet people who are passed a long time ago. However, once you start tinkering with the timeline, things unravel faster than you can say “oops”. What if shifting the location of a chair leads to nuclear war? What if saving one life means sacrificing another? The ripple effect of even the smallest change could reconfigure history in ways we can’t possibly predict. Take one of the more famous time travel stories out there: Flashpoint. The flash has had enough. He runs back in time, saves his mom from dying, and thinks, “finally, a happy ending for me!” Nope. There is now a war between the kingdoms of the sea and land, and the most famous superheroes o...

  Let’s say you can just whip the nuclear weapons of the world out of the window. But before you decide, let’s think about it. What moral concerns will race through your mind if you did do it? The destruction capacity of these weapons cannot be matched, posing an eternal threat to not just humanity, but the earth itself. Removing this monstrosity might seem like the type of question which you can answer without your senses. However, consider the delicate balance of power maintained by nuclear weapons. Countries like the USA, Russia, and North Korea, armed with vast arsenals, deter large-scale wars through mutually assured destruction. Yoinking these weapons could destabilize global peace, as nations might turn to conventional or even more insidious warfare, believing they can strike without nuclear retaliation. Can One Sole Person Decide This? The enormity of this decision begs the question: can one sole person wield such power responsibly? Deciding to eliminate all nuclear weapons...