That's my point. They called the movie "the butterfly effect" and opened with the quote something like, "does the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" This opening quote, in itself, means that they are wanting to explore the DRASTIC effects that come about from changing the tiniest, smallest, most miniscule thing in the past. An analogy might be "go back in the past, stiff a waiter an extra fifty cents on his tip, and when you return to current time, the world is in a devestating depression with hundreds of thousands of people dieing each day due to starvation and pestilence."
For them to think that you can go back into the past, ram your hands on spikes, return to current time and the only thing that has changed is that you have scars, is to defeat the whole purpose of your own movie.
The movie can't "keep it to only a few people" as you say, because according to their own theory, it just doesn't work that way. The ramifications are much more far reaching.
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