This is an ethics problem I was asked in class, once, and that truly stymied me. I wonder what people will answer here. I was reminded of this question thanks to Dr. Love's What Would You Actually Kill For? thread.

Sorry for the crazily long poll options. There was no choice with such a complex question!

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तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय
मृत्योर् मा अमृतं गमय
ॐ शांति शांति शांति

Don't mess with time.

If there wouldn't have been Hitler there would have been other Geman dictator. And even if there wasn't, then there wouldn't be any war machine to stand against the soviets. Everything happens as it is supposed to happen.

"Computer games don't affect kids....
I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
/Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989

what happened happened
not becouse of hitler
he was just one person of the whole nazi movement

you can not blame the leader
he was put there by someone[the people]
and ALOT of people knew what was going on[not only in germany]
noone stepped up

so no i would not kill him
he is not to blame
he is just the easy hate target
better to kill each and every german and all others who did nothing or even liked what was going on

Nope.

History is meant to be learned from.
Not erased and forgotten.

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What Calibre said.

Though if I did go back in time and visited him, I'd encourage him to pursue an artistic career as well.

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I wouldn't mess with time. What happened happened, and we just have to hope that people learned from it.

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I don't think killing him would prevent another
führer from doing the same he did.
Shit could've turned worse.
If you want to save millions of people, you must
first kill millions of people. It's not like anybody
can commit a genocide alone.
It's the people that gives power to the individual in charge.

Yes I would. I dont care if I screw up time. 😃 And I'd keep going back and as much as I need to killing all evil ppl.

Yeah.. no messing with timeline. One little change and who knows what may happen.
Let say killing Hitler as a child causes the death of your father before your birth or your own death somehow, but before you get a chance to use the time machine. Then you woldn't go back to kill Hitler and then he would have lived and you would existed up to the point where you use the time machine.
That's time travel paradox for you. 😃

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Don't mess with time.

^ That.

Messing with time is never a good thing, so what if you can get rid of Hitler in the past, but which past did you really influence? There are too many variables when it comes to time so it's best to leave it alone if you're thinking of something small scale like this (yes, Hitler is small scale when it comes to time, a few human years is nothing to time).

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No, I want to go somewhere else with the time machine! 🤣

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Yes I would. I dont care if I screw up time. 😃 And I'd keep going back and as much as I need to killing all evil ppl.

Don't you think that you might kill even more innocent people in the process then Hitler could have ever imagined? For example maybe you really did stop Hitler and WW2, so what would happen? Would progress stop? Of course not people would still invent weapons, a-bombs as well. And here we have a world never experienced an absolutely total war with total destruction with weapons whose destructional power has never been seen in application. So a question what would happen to a world that would start a war with nuclear weapons and then check out what mess it makes instead of ending the war with them and getting the point?
But that's of course total "what if what ifs" theory. In real time travel it would never be possible.

"Computer games don't affect kids....
I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
/Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989

My 1 cents! 2 piece and a biscuit! 2 cents! 5 cents! No, but really...
If you could go back in time, why not kill/capture the adult?
My history reeeeeally sucks, but i was told/taught (maybe someone told me as a joke, and I'm gullible? Can't remember where i heard it) that he committed "suicide" in a bunker, but no one was there to witness...maybe someone really did travel back in time...or he felt guilty. The possibilities.
Again though, my history knowledge is basically none existent so this could be just a waste of space and thought...well it still is, cause no matter the answer, time travel isn't possible...yet. (Or is it!?)

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