If you could go back in time and stop one disaster.....

[Shmoigel]

If you could go back in time and stop one disaster or other historical event, what would it be and how would you go about stopping it!

I would make sure Thomas Butler lived several more years

(it's a bit niche)

My grandfather was also there and never discussed it but Nana said he would wake up screaming during the night throughout their married life.

How could you possibly choose. They are all hearbreaking

@Shmoigel Have you read 11:22 63 by Stephen King? Brilliant book on this theme.

I was thinking Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s driver taking a wrong turning and giving Gavrilo Princip a second chance and managing to kill the Archduke and his wife.

But not just the loss of so many lives in that conflict but the many events that happened in the years afterwards; the domino effect.

But then I think it’s also quite likely some other event would have happened that would have been used as an excuse for plenty of other conflicts.

9/11. It would be the easiest to stop.

9/11

Of course we are, and as I implied in my PP, I’m no fan of either of those things. However, we surely don’t need to be personally affected by something to be able to perceive the gravity of it? In a bit poorer because of Brexit and culturally worse off for sure, but can we compare it to the holocaust or even 9/11 for it’s immediate fatalities but also far reaching impact on American foreign policy?

I would stop how various countries were divided up once the colonial powers left them. They shouldn't have been divided up within straight lines with no regards to the history/ethnicity/religions of those who lived there.

The invention of slavery. So going back several millenia.

9/11. So many things changed after that. I don’t think I’ve felt the same in so many places since suicide bombing became a threat.

I was watching an itv doc the other day called terror in the skies- the liquid bomb plot. And thank god that was stopped.

Yes this . I was 7 I remember going to my Nana's and reading the front page of her Sunday newspaper. It's an abiding childhood memory I can still see every part of her dining room as she snatched it away from me and told me it wasn't real just a story someone had made up

I’d stop my Mum being home alone the day she died. She wouldn’t have died if someone had been there. She was very young. As were her DC.

ingenious!

From what I understand various countries were spoiling for a fight at that point, and if it hadn't been the Archduke triggering the war it would have been something else.

Did anyone ‘invent’ slavery?

The murder of Jews by the Nazis.

I would pop a "family planning pill" into Donald Trump's mum !!!

Southport, which was entirely preventable, if only the authorities had actually done their job instead of pussyfooting around because "racism"😡

This. Or the Twin Towers.

I’m so sorry, that is tragic.

Agree with this one 💔

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