If you could travel back in time and kill one person, who would it be and why? - Change history the kiwi way!

[MrTroll]

Hayao Miyazaki before he invented anime.

 

[epigenes]

I'd kill Ernest Hemingway before he started writing because his influence is a cancer on literature.

wish I knew what it was like to have such phenomenally bad taste lmfao
imagine not being able to visualize what a person's writing about unless they spend pages and pages describing it where a single sentence would suffice

Klemens von Metternich.

very bad answer, would have been bismarck's equal had he wielded comparable power relative to the austrian crown. the concert of europe was destroyed by lesser men than the one who designed it

anyway, muhammad's a good answer because his failure to exist might have prevented the middle east from uniting into a powerful state but going back that far begs the question of whether someone worse might inevitably have replaced him. I'd have to go with either (a) hitler in early 1941 before the start of operation barbarossa, (b) harry truman before he fired douglas macarthur, or (c) karl marx for obvious reasons

 

[Pomniman]

wish I knew what it was like to have such phenomenally bad taste lmfao
imagine not being able to visualize what a person's writing about unless they spend pages and pages describing it where a single sentence would suffice

If you think that's the issue you were born without tastebuds.

 

[Ivan Shatov]

The problem with killing a historical figure: they are typically just figureheads for prevailing social / cultural attitudes. Someone else would replace them, it's rare you could change the course of history by replacing a single person. Kill Napoleon and Robespierre would have taken his place.

Additionally, they tend to be complicated figures. Without the Napoleonic Code, there never would have been an effort to make the law more accessible to the people.

That said, if I was going to go back in time and prevent one person from becoming who they came to be: Mao. The cult of personality around him was just awful, the excesses of the Cultural Revolution could have been avoided entirely in his absence.

 

[Canned Bread]

Alan Turing, just because it would be funny to see what the world would be like without his concepts that eventually gave birth to the modern day computer.

 

[epigenes]

If you think that's the issue you were born without tastebuds.

enlighten me

 

[Pomniman]

enlighten me

Only Allah can lead a man away from a life of sodomy, brother. Sometimes it's off the ledge of a building, sometimes it's through a shotgun, but such is the way. I hope this answers your question, but if not I'd recommend picking up a qu'ran.