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...he'd still be your cousin.

Bit of both... keen interest in how humanity/society has turned into what it is today (finding the consistencies throughout history and how these have developed or changed) which made me a bit of a history nerd (in some regards; not that into wars and specific years of kings and all that), along...

Free will is a very religious idea. Early human civilisations were obsessed with the idea of a dying and resurrecting God, which represented the winter (death of plants = food, etc.) and the resurrection (spring). They thought that if you kill the king (the human incarnation of a God) when he...

The thing with the butterfly effect though is that there's several outcomes based on these alternative timelines. Yes, quite possibly a hundred million lives or so would have been saved in the short term. But the World War II also resulted in a lot of changes in philosophy, humanitarian values...