# Most evil thing you could do **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294 "2002-05-22T13:28:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/41 "2002-12-16T21:13:47Z")
Cure all diseases - then not tell anybody. nah, not even I could do that… ummmm, date someone. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/42 "2002-12-16T21:37:41Z")
I would go back in time to ensure that this is my 666th post and then forward in time to start a conspiracy theory about it. Possibly picking and choosing from the nastier ideas that people come up with here. Hmmm I may have just done that. Mwuhahaha ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/43 "2002-12-16T22:09:32Z")
I would replace the eagle as the symbol of American freedom with… Jar Jar Binks. ---
**Author:** ![Dravin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dravin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dravin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/44 "2002-12-16T23:18:42Z")
With Time Travel: Go back in time and give the Axis in WWII plans for advanced techonogy, such as a working Jet Engine, and possibly the plans and knowledge and plans to build a nuke. Nazi Germany with nukes and Jet Engines the early on would be pretty scary, other various technologies that’s only say a decade ahead of the times would also be potent. Japan would probably also have a field day with such technology. Imagine if instead of conventional bombs nukes had been dropped on Pearl Harbor. Without Time Travel: Probably rape and butch my nephews (2 and 4)._shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/45 "2002-12-17T19:43:15Z")
After a bit of plastic surgery I’d go back to Roman Times, maybe somewhere in the middle east, and pose as a dude who’d just been executed. That would sure fool 'em. Cheers, Keithy ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/46 "2002-12-18T06:10:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > \*\*Get sushi. > > And not pay. \*\* _"Let’s go do some crimes._ I’d let airborne ebola loose just to see how society reacts–it would be very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/47 "2002-12-18T09:03:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kitarak \* > Skip forward every 20 years to personally oversee selections for each generation. That’s not going to work. You will be assassinated faster than you can bat an eyelash. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kitarak \* > Over this time I will of course have been building up their technology so that they’re well past 20th century level. How? You don’t have the knowledge, and they won’t, being only know how to fight. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kitarak \* > Then deposit them on the mainland around 1000 BC. Remember, only you can time travel, not them. Interesting plan, but got holes so big a few blue whales can swim through. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/48 "2002-12-18T09:05:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > Go back in time to the Oldavai Gorge in Africa. > Then go _ape hunting_. > > _All_ stories end… You can’t do that, or else you will cease to exist. Then the apes will be safe. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/49 "2002-12-18T09:07:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by js\_africanus \* > I’d let airborne ebola loose just to see how society reacts–it would be very interesting. Not a thing. _Ebola Zaire_, the strain that affects humans, aren’t transmitted through air. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/50 "2002-12-18T16:12:51Z")
GREAT! Now that my first plan of action is in place I will have to start phase 2. Off to the future. I will be back shortly. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/51 "2002-12-18T16:25:26Z")
I’d Cup 'O Fart the Pope. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294/52 "2002-12-18T16:52:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Urban Ranger \* > \*\*Not a thing. > > _Ebola Zaire_, the strain that affects humans, aren’t transmitted through air. \*\* If we’re assuming time travel is possible, an airborne super-plague hardly seems a stretch. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-thing-you-could-do/110294.md?page=2)