A logic flaw
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avortac — 10 years ago(April 11, 2015 12:04 PM)
The younger senator is holding a check, and then the older senator and his gang (well, his gang and the older senator, to be precise) arrive from the future.
The older senator says: "If I were you, I wouldn't cash that check. It's gonna cost you MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW." (I am paraphrasing from memory)
This made me stop and think.
First of all, IF that is true, then how can the older senator ever KNOW just how much it will cost him? But if we think that he doesn't, he only knows that it costs SO MUCH that he will still never, ever know the exact amount (which would be quite ridiculous for any sum anyway).
Second of all, how can something cost more than he will KNOW? I can understand that something can cost more than he can ESTIMATE AT THE TIME, but more than he will EVER know? Then what's the problem of the cost, if he will never even know about it, or at least how much it will be?
Surely he will at some point know exactly 'how much it will cost' him.
Perhaps he means that there's so much potential that can't be estimated, that's now completely lost, that it's impossible, even in the future, to accurately estimate or know just how much was actually lost (like you can't estimate how many people would have bought something if they hadn't gotten it for free, for example).
I would immediately ask the older senator, "What does THAt mean? How is it possible for me to never know it, and why would I care, if I don't even know it?"
Anyway, stupid writers, I wish they'd use their brains. But then, we'd be probably living on some other planet, because that's sure not the Terran way. -
taxvictim — 10 years ago(May 19, 2015 12:01 PM)
You're right! But out of all of the logical flaws created by time travel and its ignored possibilities, that's the one you pick? What about the Time Cops wandering around 1994 Washington DC with guns and strange uniforms from the future? What about "Why didn't they go back to WAY BEFORE the bad guys got there so they could set a trap?"
Time travel is fun in movies, but you can't over think it or nothing works.