Would you listen to the time traveler and believe you will start a war?

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@constanze

I said that chess implies one player, a chess-master, who moves the pieces. Who is the chessmaster for WWI? The leaders and generals of each country played Risk with their armies, yes - but who moved the leaders around?

Kozmik, I suspect you misunderstood constanze’s point. She (?) was saying that WWI is NOT like chess and giving a reason for the dissimilarity. Chess has a chess-master, i.e., a player, moving pieces around. When she asked, “Who is the chessmaster for WWI?” the answer to the rhetorical question is, “there weren’t none.” No chessmaster at all, because unlike chess, the major pieces were all self-motivated.

[robert_columbia]

@Shade

…people who have done assassinated someone famous…

That’s funny, I’m now picturing a version of WW1 set completely in the US South. Maybe the war starts with a Texas cowboy assassinating the Governor of Alabama.

[Drunky_Smurf]

No, I would not.

[Telemark]

@Kozmik

I will regain membership the day that question is answered by a member of the SDMB. Perhaps a lurker.

We will work night and day to make sure the second coming happens.

[Ravenman]

@Learjeff

I make it a general rule never to kill anyone merely on the advice of someone else.

Yeah, but what if they were wearing a cloak? Did you deliberately leave that part of the scenario out? And if you did, you made you leave that detail out?

[Smeghead]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

Kozmik, I suspect you misunderstood constanze’s point.

Hello, Sisyphus. Here’s your rock. Enjoy.

[Learjeff]

@Ravenman

Yeah, but what if they were wearing a cloak? Did you deliberately leave that part of the scenario out?

Oh right! The cloak changes everything! My bad.

[handsomeharry]

@Learjeff

I make it a general rule never to kill anyone merely on the advice of someone else.

Uh…never mind, then…