03-31-2017, 09:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2017, 09:13 AM by MarylikesGrimm.)
(03-31-2017, 09:05 AM)irukandji Wrote:(03-31-2017, 09:03 AM)MarylikesGrimm Wrote:(03-31-2017, 08:56 AM)irukandji Wrote:(03-31-2017, 08:36 AM)MarylikesGrimm Wrote:(03-31-2017, 08:31 AM)Circe27 Wrote: That's not what we are trying to do at all. This is like if someone asked "If you could go back to one specific moment in your life were you had to make a difficult choice, would you make the same decision?" There is no way for you to go back and change your decision, it's impossible, but you use the question as an opportunity to go over the choice and think of the outcome if you made a different decision. We're not talking about going back and changing the past.
There is no way to know that outcome of a large change in the past. If you asked me if I change my color of my car I can guess what the outcome would be. When you remove your only child from your life how could I guess the outcome?
I don't understand your point. What does the color of your car have to do with speculating if Nick would take the same steps to keep his baby son?
You can guess a likely outcome of a small change in your life in the past but not a large one. "What if" does not work with a big change like not having a child since you cannot accurately guess what would happen instead it would be like a random event at best.
I'm still not getting what this has to do with a hypothetical question.
What if is the hypothetical question. If you can ask hypothetical questions about making big changes and ask if small change would be affected you will not be able to tell.
If I try to think of my life without my children I would live somewhere else, had a different work history and possibly be with someone else. How could I guess the outcome?
Women characters do not have to be having sex with the lead to be important to the story.