Poll: Would You Kill Baby Hitler?
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If it wasn't Hitler, would've been someone else in his place, so I'd turn him into the anti-Fuhrer to take out the Nazi Reich before they reached power and become ruler of Germany with Hitler as my *****. Curing WW2, saving Hitler's artistic skills and screwing up yer timelines for the lulz :3
The alternative is... Shave his mustache off. Then people would've actually taken him serious and wouldn't let him start the war, expand his army, even though he, AKA Germany, was obliged to not have more than a 100000 soldiers at any given time, after WWI.Poofs said:
No. As horrible as it was, the Holocaust was a major step of learning for humanity. If Hitler had been killed, thus preventing it from happening, it would be risking the Holocaust merely occurring later (and with much more devastating death-counts) for the sole reason that it had never happened, and thus we would have no real comparative knowledge regarding it. It could be...risky to do that.
No. Not because I think it's sad or mean or whatever, but because I like the world where I live in now. And, selfish as it may be: I think that's worth sacrificing 6 million Jews for that. I wouldn't take the risk of getting back to 2010 and finding out that we now live in a Middle Ages renaissance.
No, but i would kidnap him and take him to England or someplace, that should be enough to keep him out of trouble.
I really don't care about killing a baby if it will save lives. My "soul" is not as important as ten million innocents.
But there is no garuntee that killing baby hitler would prevent the war, or even the holocaust! Killing him might even result in more death! There's no way of knowing!
Probably safest to kill him, though. He seems to have been the largest factor.
But there is no garuntee that killing baby hitler would prevent the war, or even the holocaust! Killing him might even result in more death! There's no way of knowing!
Probably safest to kill him, though. He seems to have been the largest factor.
I don't know if this has been mentioned already... Go see "The Boys from Brazil" staring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier.
If I wanted to change history - and if I had that ability - I'd choose a far better, cleaner and more certain method than killing a baby.
World War II didn't happen purely because of Hitler but because of massive outbreaks of nationalism, dissatisfaction with post-war recessions and frequent humiliating invasions by France. Although you may prevent the holocaust it might not have prevented the war and its hardly a clean way to manipulate events.
I'd prefer a way of garanteeing Germany's peaceful restructuring and creating an economy and political situation with stability, where Hitler and the nationalists would have been imprisoned by a jury of their peers at a young age for being a bunch of racist fruitbaskets.
If I wanted to change history - and if I had that ability - I'd choose a far better, cleaner and more certain method than killing a baby.
World War II didn't happen purely because of Hitler but because of massive outbreaks of nationalism, dissatisfaction with post-war recessions and frequent humiliating invasions by France. Although you may prevent the holocaust it might not have prevented the war and its hardly a clean way to manipulate events.
I'd prefer a way of garanteeing Germany's peaceful restructuring and creating an economy and political situation with stability, where Hitler and the nationalists would have been imprisoned by a jury of their peers at a young age for being a bunch of racist fruitbaskets.
What the hell are 15% of escapists thinking!? If by some miracle you find yourself temporarily back in time, you should never ever ever touch anything... Even the slightest change can have profound impacts in the future, especially traveling that far back.
Of course I would simply give the baby a lollipop and then go on to use my powers of time travel to bring so much goodness to the world in an infinite amount of ways that the Hitler kill or don't kill dichotomy becomes entirely irrelevant.
If we are talking time travel then no, you can't because it causes a paradox. The only reason you would go back and kill a baby hitler is because of what he did etc. If you killed him he never did it and hence why you would never have a reason to go back and kill him.
"Oh, you and your moral conundrums - I do so love them!" [cookie for referencePoofs said:
]OT I wouldn't because, as many have said, for all the death and destruction that WW2 caused, the world learned so many important things and so much was developed - hell, computers were invented during the war, weren't they? The world could easily be worse off now than it is, however hard the decision to allow countless millions to die would be.
I would just get the upgrade and leave.