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Originally Posted by ladyislingering
Would you want to stay?
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I don't know. I'd have to see what it's like. However it's just ocurred to me that 50,000 years ago the Earth was smack bang in the middle of an ice age and I really dislike the cold, so I'd go back 10,000 years instead.
I often wonder what it would have been like to have been born back then. On one hand you'd be incredibly free, there'd be no money, no school, no laws, so very little conditioning; but on the other hand if someone wanted to kill you there'd be no punishment of imprisonment to deter them, you'd be living alongside many dangerous animals, there'd be very little medicine, so something as simple as a toothache could become unbearable. I'd like to know whether the increase in freedom was difficult to appreciate due to the scant security and subsequent increased danger.