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Well, I think the most plausible way for me to live to see more than 120 years after my date of birth involves cryonics - and that might as well be time travel into the future.
I would think so too; if all goes reasonably well, the future would be better for those that live in it, but that doesn't mean I won't be disturbed by it. And people in the future would probably judge me guilty of either contributing to or failing to prevent horrible crimes, much the same as we consider the ancient Romans to have been responsible for many horrible things. I don't want to be put on trial for eating factory farmed meat, for example.
Behold the radiant beauty that is nullum crimen sine lege (specifically forbidding ex post facto laws as many modern legal systems do). Of course while this is pretty widely embraced by most decent places to live, it in practice isn't really robust since we've seen violations of this principle on a massive scale in recent history.
But a future that upheld it consistently would be pretty neat. Or so it seems to me when naively looking at it.