If I could give any historical figure any piece of technology, I humbly decline. It was the struggle and hardships that made them an inspiration. It was how they stepped outside society's norms and issues and broke the bars. They inspired others to do the same and lead movements. People looked up to them with hope and awe. Even if these figures had opposition or disdain from others to their ideas, Historical Figures kept on their mindset. They got recognised for their work in future, long after their death. Some might say- what about the deaths? Why not help the Jews stuck in the concentration camp? And should not I help these unjustified deaths? Yes, deaths are unjustified, but when are they not? Death is unjustified to those students who suicide out of marks and the education system, to those women who could not bear the shame of rape. The death of toddlers, infants and teenagers who were yet to explore life is unjustified. Death will forever be unjustified in past, present and future. It is the nature of death to be untimely with no justice. No one calls death justified. Something around death is always unjustified- its time or its way of happening. A girl dying from a car crash because of another party's drunk driving is unfair to her or her family. She was not drunk driving but still had to pay the price. The loss of a baby is the most grief event that can happen to the parents. Them seeing the empty crib and room set for their child, who could never play in that room. In the same view, the genocide of people in the concentration camps is unjustified. But death has never been a friend or an enemy. The people who die always deserve a better death or a better life, to say the opposite. All of this said, giving technology to anyone in the past undermines the values set by them. They gave themselves entirely to the cause till the end. Historical figures, either right, wrong, or grey- stepped out and into the pages of history. I value their raw actions and passion. Each one of the people in history inspires me to act. They all have had their bad days and risen again. Giving them technology or an object from the future makes someone with an extraordinary item. But these people are themselves special. I will never change this for the people living at that time or people reading now. They ought to live immortally in the history pages as people with the strongest will and the courage to wager themselves on their cause.
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