Poll: Would You Kill Baby Hitler?

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Time paradox, dude. If I killed him I'd have no reason to travel in the past. And if I had no reason to travel in the past he'd live and still cause WW2. Then I'd have the abilities and REPEAT THAT SHIT FOR ETERNITY.

No.

EDIT: FUCK YES 5,000 POSTS

 

[almostgold]

I'd set up a trust fund for him to go to summer art school!

 

[ccggenius12]

Despite, (or possibly because) of the fact that I am a Doctor Who fan, I believe that the timeline is constant and immutable. Everything that has or will happened is supposed to happen and it is impossible to change it because your actions helped cause it. That Wild Stallyns bucket fell on your head because the The Wild Stallyns bucket fell on your head, letting them escape to set up the Wild Stallyns bucket. If I tried to kill li'l Hitler, some other time traveler would show up and stop me because thats not how its supposed to happen. Heck, that other time traveler could be a me that was shunted to a parallel universe because he already killed Hitler and didn't like how the world looked after his actions.

On the other hand, if none of that is the case, I'd kill him just so I could "cross it off my list of things I thought I'd never get to do. Hey Hank, killed Hitler."

 

[Sejs Cube]

Could I bring myself to do it? Yes.

Would I do it? Probably not. No Hitler means big, big changes to the time line. Yes, WW2 was a tragic, tragic thing but it was also a hugely important event particularly in a temporal sense.

Easy example. You like your computer? Heck, you like electronics in general? Because no World War 2 means no rocketry programs and no wartime development of the Enigma project. Means a huge divergence in how electronics develop.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Totally take him as a son and change his surname.

Pretty much something like that. As has been said, it's likely that someone else would then rise up and take his place, but still. You don't kill a baby.

 

[Vakz]

No. Live in the present. Hitler is not the only terrible thing that has happened to humanity, and not even the worst, it just happen to be one of the most recent.

 

[Noatun]

No. If I would have killed him I might prevent the Holocaust, but what horrors would replace all the disasters of WWII? Could there be an even more horrible and devastating Holocaust if another person replaced Hitler? Would the Jews, or even another group, be completely exterminated because I killed Hitler? Would there be a nuclear war if it were not for Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Killing Hitler would present an unknown alternative, a possibly even more destructive alternative. I do not want to be responsible for the unforeseen consequences.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

No. I could never kill a child. Even knowing what he'd grow up to do, as soon as I saw him as a baby I would be physically unable to kill him.

Fuck, anyone who can kill an innocent child is fucked up in the head (he may not be innocent later but at that stage in his life he'd done nothing wrong).

 

[Arcticflame]

No, chaos theory, I wouldn't of been born. I like living.

 

[KalosCast]

This has been done so much by short-sighted but well-meaning time travelers that the time police have a factory to clone Hitlers just outside the time-stream near 1933. They have a running office pool to see who will commit suicide next over the horror of what they're doing.

 

[Kingsnake661]

To think that simply removing hitler from time would prevent WW2 is a falicy of logic. Hitler alone didn't start world war 2. Lots of factors did. And in fact, from what i understand of history, the reason they LOST WW2 was the fact Hitler was a pretty BAD general and made some really DUMB moves.

Who's to say you wouldn't make things even worse? Like say, having the nazi's have a compedent leader and they accually win? Not to mention the fact that a baby is innocent, and the very fact you've travel through time very likely altered it anyways, so, the baby hitler's "fate" isn't nessessirly set in stone anymore... (I don't belive in FATE. Thus, IMO, you can't condime a person for crimes that didn't commit, even if it's possible they MIGHT in an alternate future.)

If a time traveler REALLY wanted to prevent world war 2, he'd need to go back and work on preventing world war 1 first. It's much more complacated then just killing baby hitler...

 

[tkioz]

No, not just No... Oh HELL NO.

Unlike some I've actually studied the history of the second world war, Hitler did more to lose Germany the war then most of the allied nations. Even if the assassination attempts on his life in '44 had worked it would of made the war worse, the cable trying to knock him off wanted to organise a negotiated end to the war... guess what that would have meant? The Allies would have taken it, which means the holocaust would have been covered up.

The German's have a word, Zeitgeist, it means "the spirit of the age", which means that the world was going to have a second world war no matter what, the times were right for it, but take Hitler out of the picture and suddenly so many things could go wrong, Germany might not have invaded Russia, it might not have shoved its balls into the grinder by following the Japanese in declaring war on the US (yeah, the US declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on the US, there is some debate if the US would have entered the EU war without Germany doing that).

Frankly there is so much that could have been so much worse, so, let history be history, and don't screw with it.

 

[Cazza]

No

Not my right to fuck with time. True it might things better, could make them worst, could not change a thing. No point in becoming a murder for it. Also pointed out at that stage he hadn't had anything wrong.

 

[Fappy]

I would give him to a Serbian family.