Conflicts And Paradoxes

There are issues here that would put some of us on opposite sides in an armed conflict. Think of that. (Maybe not for too long.) Poul Anderson could have written a historical trilogy:

I, a Cavalier hero;

II, a Roundhead hero;

III, they meet.

Multiply such examples throughout history. 

Anderson's The People Of The Wind presents sympathetic characters on both sides in the Terran-Ythrian War. The Terran Empire is defended in some Technic History instalments and opposed in others and the opposition is in some cases successful but in other cases not - as in real history.

In the Time Patrol universe, some "time criminals" would be motivated solely to prevent the horrors of the twentieth century. Which side would we support? (Especially since I argue that "deletion" of timeline 1 means that the events of that timeline have never occurred in timeline 2 but not that they have never occurred period. We need Temporal tenses.)

We have wandered between issues here. Poul Anderson takes us from armed conflicts to time travel paradoxes.

Time travellers in combat can double back in time to attack each other earlier but Jack Havig, quicker witted than his antagonists, manages to kill three and make the fourth flee. His rebellion against the Eyrie has begun.