Ethical Dilemma: If You Could Travel Back in Time and Kill a Child-Hitler, Would You?
15 years ago
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there are thing you just don't mess with. Time is one of them.
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I normally say no to this kind of thing, but I would go back in time and slaughter him in the most brutal way I could imagine. It is true that we would lose one of those historical lessons, but the price of one million people to learn something we should have known for thousands of years sounds stupid to me. Some of the reasons these idiots go around killing people is because they just can't accept any view other than their own. If everyone was like them, humanity wouldn't have existed beyond a century. I would rather kill one person and save those lives rather than have them die to REINFORCE something everyone should already know. The only sensible and acceptable deaths are natural or accidental deaths. Genocide is just plain retarded.
@jasonthomas: These guys are almost impossible to catch after they have already gone and killed those people. Most of them are smart enough to go into hiding. That is why it is hard to catch them in current time. The people they killed are still dead as well. Also, there are numerous beliefs on how Hitler died. Most say suicide, some people claim he was bombed to death, a few think he screwed up some ritual to become an immortal and burned to death. About the Hitler's suicide part, it is believed that he killed everyone else first, then bit the licorish himself. He didn't feel guilty for killing anyone, he just didn't want to get caught alive. Most people who kill like that lack the guilt response and the capacity to tell right from wrong, or at least they don't believe in what society calls right and wrong. We call them psychopaths.
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15 years ago
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^ You should not change history just like that. You are not able to grasp the consequences of such actions What already happend cannot be altered. People should focus their energy on preventing something like that from ever happening again.
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^ You should not change history just like that. You are not able to grasp the consequences of such actions What already happend cannot be altered. People should focus their energy on preventing something like that from ever happening again.
hear hear!
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I don't care if I was changing history, I'd try to influence child-Hitler or stop him in some way without killing him. When I think of the millions of people tortured and killed, I just don't care what I might be doing as long as I'm stopping that mass-murdering part of history. I think the risks are worth it.
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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.
Haha, that reminds me of deathnote... soon you would become evil yourself
and no, i wouldn't go back in time. If we were to kill child Hitler, the USSR would've attempted world domination or something similar. There could have been many other destructive possibilities. To go back and stop one evil individual might only cause twenty more to arise. How did Hitler become that way in the first place? Because he felt that Germany had been mistreated (post WWI) and wanted revenge for his nation. History is a chain of events that build upon each other, to simply "kill Hitler" wouldn't stop other heinous acts to happen but might only encourage them.
Out of bad scenarios good comes also, through the defeat of the Nazi regime, Britain and America became more united, many people learned valuable lessons and basically there were beneficial results of such a deed as overthrowing Hitler. To simply kill him and save hundreds of millions of lives would not prevent parallel events to unfold and would require the same great strife for people to overcome those. Then people would be posting in forums how they wish they could go back in time and kill some random dictator while Hitler is an unknown. Overall, you can't change the way history repeats itself, instead we can learn from such heinous situations.
15 years ago
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I would not.
History is not something that should be messed with
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I wouldn't kill him.
I feel that even if he was dead, it would've still happened. Just with another homicidal dictator.
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15 years ago
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If I Could Travel Back in Time..i will just watch everything that happen, make some interview to anyone (including Hitler), observe their live... then i would probably write the best history book ever..
15 years ago
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I wouldn't do anything. If something happened in the past, then the present reflects that event.
So, let's say I did go back in time to kill Hitler. The fact that I decided to kill Hitler occurred in the present. However, the actual act of killing already occurred in the past when I went back in time to kill him. That means that, despite myself going back in time to kill Hitler, there was still a crazy guy named Hitler who hated Jews and tricked an entire nation into mass murder.
Basically, if I tried to alter the past, since time is linear, that past has already happened, and the present is a result of me trying to alter the past.
15 years ago
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y'know what..i just thought of something.. maybe i will go back in time, and then kill him at April 30th 1945 and stage it as a suicide.... then made that best history book ever 😀
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if there was no hitler (assuming that there was no other german dictator wanting his spot) then there would have been no WWII not WWII then Japan would have never attacked us(maybe?) if no attack then the US would have stayed in its Great Depression, if that had happened the US would have become a super power, if the US was not a super power the world economy probably would not have flourished as well as it did (if what some people said about the US economy failing bringing the whole world down with it is true), not only that but then the US also probably wouldnt have the only 2 terms amendment meaning a dictator would be possible for for the US. So many things are attached to hitlers being evil that without him the world would be so different and possibly worse than it is today
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y'know what..i just thought of something.. maybe i will go back in time, and then kill him at April 30th 1945 and stage it as a suicide.... then made that best history book ever 😀
Everyone wins this way!!!
But seriously, I wouldn't because I don't like the idea of killing someone (even if it's Hitler) and I'd mess up the timeline and the consequences might be worse than what I'd stopped. If I had a time machine, Nazi Germany would be the last place I would want to go anyway.
15 years ago
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Is quite simple... without hitler the soviets wouldn't have become such a powerhouse (ex german scientist fled to rusia), without them my grandpa wouldn't had left his home in the middle east... without my grandpa, my dad wouldn't exist, and without my dad I wouldn't exist.
so FUCK NO
If you can travel in time, then you should always head to the future, or do some little changes in your IMMEDIATE PAST... messing with something that happened decades ago, is STUPID for say the least.
