Would you go back to the 70s or 80s?

I don't know. I think it would only create a problem if his Mom somehow got pregnant from the encounter or Lorraine actually truly fell in love with Marty. Talk about extreme GSA. Although, I guess it could trigger the Grandfather(mother) paradox. By screwing his Mom and making her fall in love with him, he erases himself sorta due to preventing his birth. Then he can't go back to actually do it in the first place, or get hit by the car that puts him in Lorraine's house. Hmmmm

 

If a paradox occurs, who would even know? All memories would be altered as well.

 

To give up all the modern comforts, it would be hard desicion to go back to 80s or even early 90s, but I think I would do it.

Back then people could take joke. Everything is so serious now days, with all that social justice and political correctness. Atleast where I am from, comedy on TV in the 80s were very colourful. Everything and everybody were sterotyped. But everyone also understood it being just a joke.

Now days everyone has to self-cencure themselfs or otherwise you can lose everything. It has become so boring in a way that me personaly doesn't have patience or interest to watch TV anymore. Or follow media outlets.

I kind of wish it to be times when you had make effort to be entertained, be it seeing friends or any other social activity.

 

In a heartbeat. A lot of people who missed getting punched in the face will no longer have to wonder what it feels like.

 

I have a friend who is very fond of science fiction and he says that in a scenario like that a parallel universe is created, with a different outcome in the relationship. But if we consider that there are 7,700,000,000 people in the world making decisions and each decision creates a parallel universe, there must be billions of universes.

 

Lots of food for thought. In which universe did I already write this? Maybe I'm just writing from a memory. Could it be that Dr. Who and the rest of the Time Lords are onto something. Can someone direct me to Galifrey (sp)?

 

I have good news for you. Back in the 80s we had a British show called Spitting Image. For those who don't know, it was a show with puppets. Puppets of celebrities, politicians, sportsman, the lot. If Ronald Reagan had said something silly on saturday, he was roasted on Spitting Image on sunday. They spared no one. Never. Not even the queen herself. It was once said that one hoped to be in the show, but it would not be so bad. If one wasn't in the show, one was presumed to be absolutely boring.

Well, they revamped Spitting Image. Put Trump in it, Elon too. The complete Royal family, Lebron James and the most anoying showhost James Corden. They had a contract with an American TV channel to broadcast it. Then they showed the trailer. The American station immediately dropped it since they couldn't handle it because of what it is. For British viewers, it moved to a subscription based station. For the rest of the world it's free on youtube on the Spitting Image channel.

 

Would I go back, I think life is much more comfortable now then when I was a child, but people, friends family where closer, it was far easier to get to know people around you. There seems to be a barrier between younger and older people that did not exist in the past.

I feel sociaty is far more broadminded now thanks to the Internet, yet the laws have gone the other way, age limits, bans and political correctness.

I expected the age of consent to be lower by now for example

 

Well then I prefer my present universe without any doubt, the decisions I have been making, especially about mom, I have never regretted and I enjoy them very much. I'll definitely keep my current universe.

 

Age of consent is like the speed limit. They are invented. Since we cannot discuss some things on this forum, I will use the speed limit. In my country, it was invented in the early seventies. Before that, it didn't exist. Enforcing it would be an issue as well. Anyway, you could go as fast as your heart desired and your car would go. Our police drove Porsches in the day. Radar equipment didn't exist. Nor did ABS, ESP, airbags, crash structures and the mandatory safety tests.

As casualties raised, something was needed to be done. So, we got ourselves a speed limit. At first, it was set at "100". Later, it was set to 120 and a few years ago, you could go as fast as 130. That was, until environmentalists shook their ugly heads. We are now back at 100. In suburban areas same thing. The speed limit is something we all agreed upon. The Germans have the same issue. The Autobahn is more or less "Freie Fahrt", meaning no speed limits. Only construction zones, congested parts and those susceptible to flooding are limited. There is a lobby trying to end the "Freie Fahrt" thing, and there are the German car manufacturers opposing it. So far, the car manufacturers are winning.

The same goes for the age of consent. It didn't exist at first. We are now in a time where laws assume your sexual life starts at 18. Everything under it might be punishable by law. So, they got arrested. What they did is called sexting. This is a dangerous thing as pictures sent to friends might come back to hurt you later. The offend : distribution of porn. A forbidden kind of porn.

So, we have gone overboard with our laws. The common sense is just completely gone. Speed limits have gone down because of emissions, where one cow doing one poo anihilates the result we all were striving for. Same for the age of consent : yes it is a good idea to protect the weak against those desiring to exploit, but now the weak themselves can be targeted by the law.

 

There are of course groups that have achieved a lot, the lgbt community is one. I am surprised how rapidly the use of cannabis has become legal in some parts of the world while at the same time continue to bring in laws regarding to smoking of tobacco.

 

If a link between cannabis use and cancer causation is ever found, then you can see laws against it once more. Right now the best thing tobacco companies can/could/should do is start growing and marketing cannabis. Phase that in as tobacco is phased out. They have the ability/resources to take over and control the cannabis market. Just my two cents for what ever that's worth.

 

The reason why tobacco smoking is supposed so bad is due to the many Chemicals you inhale because your inhaling a smoke from a burning substance, your also filling your lungs with something so your heart needs to work faster.

How is that different to smoking cannabis, smoke isn't any healthier and you then have the added problem of mental health that has already been linked to cannabis.

 

Vaping is MUCH worse than "real" smoking. With cannabis you can make those special brownies. Eat it instead of smoking it. Lungs don't get damaged.

The only smoking I do now is with this large contraption, use charcoal and different woods for flavor. I've smoked turkey, beef (different cuts), pork and chicken. I buy raw sausage and smoke that too.

 

It's not really that sex life begins at 18, because from a medical point of view it is clear that it does not. The purpose of this law is that people who are still forming their character and personality cannot be abused and manipulated by older people. It is also due to a pure technicality of the law, that is to say, in Spain a person is considered an adult and responsible for his or her acts from the age of 18, can vote in elections, be independent of his or her parents, work, buy a house... and for all these reasons, it would not make sense to place any sexual limitations on them from the age of 18. If we understand that a person with 18 years of age has the same rights and duties as a person with 30, 40 or 60 years of age, it is assumed that he or she can act freely. But this is only a technicality, that is, the law needed to determine from what point a person is fully responsible for his or her actions and is no longer under the guardianship or responsibility of his or her parents. The age of majority has been established at 18, but even so you lack all experience, because that age is not a real and authentic option, because when faced with a concrete situation I can spend two weeks looking for a solution and when I pose the same question to mom she gives me a better solution in five minutes, because she has much more experience in this life.

 

80s for sure