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    You cannot change the past. — Carmelics
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    Supports→You cannot kill your younger self by traveling back in time, even if you are well-equipped and targeting your younger self.

    You cannot change the past.

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    The consistency paradoxes arise when you, for instance, try to kill your younger self by a backward causal process but evidently have to fail. The reason why you must fail is quite obvious. Your younger self belongs to the past and therefore, since you cannot change the past, you cannot commit retro-suicide. This answer tacitly assumes that resurrection is impossible. You may, of course, kill your younger self in the past without changing the past if you have come alive again later on. This is n

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