The Philosophy of Time Travel and Donnie Darko.

I had never seen the movie "Donnie Darko" until last night. I had heard it was a top ten movie, but for whatever reason I never got around to watching it. After watching it, I was amazed. I cannot recommend it enough.

I will not give away any spoilers, but in the movie there is a book called "The Philosophy of Time Travel". The realities of time travel are part of philosophy. The most basic question often asked if what would happen if you went back in time and killed someone who had committed crimes in the future? Is it ethical? What if someone grew up to become a seriel killer? Would it be ethical to kill them in the past?

It raises so many questions, but I recommend seeing the movie if you haven't.

"They made me do it!"

there is a far better film that explores the same ideas in a more complex way

http://www.primermovie.com/trailer-Large.html

Originally posted by Madacapa
I will not give away any spoilers, but in the movie there is a book called "The Philosophy of Time Travel". The realities of time travel are part of philosophy. The most basic question often asked if what would happen if you went back in time and killed someone who had committed crimes in the future? Is it ethical? What if someone grew up to become a seriel killer? Would it be ethical to kill them in the past?

I italicized one of your sentences to help illustrate my point.
There are no realities of time travel. Time travel exists (so far as we know, and for all intents and purposes) only in the imagination, open to whim and fancy. Because of this, we are burdened with trying to ponder real-issue questions (such as you've framed) within a fictional context; it's impossible to know real-life consequences.

In other words: were time travel a real and indeed, even familiar reality, something with rules independent of our wishes, something that we've long since worked into the physical as well as spiritual/psychological/moral fabric of our society, the questions posed might seem far less formidable.

I hope that made sense, or I will have to go back in time and edit myself.

No, you can´t travel back in time... you will have imaginary mass if you do that.

man, donnie darko is the single most overrated film of the last ten years, and perhaps ever.

Exept for Da Vincis Code LOL🙂)