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But T3 doesn't allow for that to be the case. The date of Judgement Day changed by something like 6 years. That means that Kyle Reese is a completely different person. He would have been born right around Judgement Day in the altered timeline, which makes it ridiculously unlikely that he would exist. In Terminator's timeline, he would have been conceived and born well after Judgement Day, with all that being gestated and born in a post nuclear war world entails, while in the T3 timeline, he would have been conceived before. Even if the same two people got together and had a kid on the same day, it wouldn't be the same person, so John wouldn't exist. But he did exist, which means that the Terminator series from T2 onward is not about closed loops and avoiding paradoxes.
Hilariously in support of this argument, it turns out Kyle Reese and John Connor are different people across the series!

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