# Which Of These Points of Divergences Would Have Produced The Best World

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 11, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-points-of-divergences-would-have-produced-the-best-world/567186 "2011-01-11T02:43:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-points-of-divergences-would-have-produced-the-best-world/567186/1 "2011-01-11T02:43:37Z")

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Which of these points of divergence would have produced the best possible world of the available choices in your opinion.

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**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-points-of-divergences-would-have-produced-the-best-world/567186/2 "2011-01-11T02:51:56Z")

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What are the choices?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-points-of-divergences-would-have-produced-the-best-world/567186/3 "2011-01-11T02:57:34Z")

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The first one.

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-points-of-divergences-would-have-produced-the-best-world/567186/4 "2011-01-11T02:58:32Z")

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I like them all equally at this point.

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**Author:** ![Napkin\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8dc957/32.png) [@Napkin\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napkin_Sandwich)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-points-of-divergences-would-have-produced-the-best-world/567186/5 "2011-01-11T02:59:30Z")

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Is that the point of divergence, Shagnasty?

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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-points-of-divergences-would-have-produced-the-best-world/567186/6 "2011-01-11T03:02:36Z")

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Here’s the poll…

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-points-of-divergences-would-have-produced-the-best-world/567186/7 "2011-01-11T03:15:23Z")

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[Moderator Note]75 different choices? I don’t _think_ so. There is no way a civilized(or coherent) conversation could possibly arise from this mess, so I’m shutting this down.[/Moderator Note]