Poll: Would You Kill Baby Hitler?
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you could easily make him believe that every one has rights to who they are and that people are to be treated nice
you could easily make him believe that every one has rights to who they are and that people are to be treated nice
No, simply because it would fuck with history, things happened and IF I were to magically end up in Germany in 1890, I would simply do nothing simply to keep history as it is.
I would steal baby Hitler and run off with him and take him under my wing as my ward. Now with my convenient biography of little Adolf I would make sure he does everything that leads him to power. Though instead of killing of millions I would teach Hitler to convert them to our cause. Fuck the Nazi's we would be known as the Immortals to strike fear into our enemies. With our now limitless army we would advance overseas and launch a full assault against the United States. Then I live with the world under my thumb.
...plus who could kill this?
...plus who could kill this?
The holocaust is a fixed point in time (well, really a series of fixed points). I would say the laws of time would not let a murder of infant Hitler end well.
EDIT: and I say this not merely as a Doctor Who fan
EDIT: and I say this not merely as a Doctor Who fan
If you kill Hitler, either Germany starts WWII anyways or they don't. If they do, the Nazi party would fare much better since they don't have to deal with all of Hitler's dumbass decisions. If they don't, inevitable war with the Soviets and their allies breaks out a decade or two later. The Allied forces would probably lose that one unless the war goes nuclear and we all die. The best case scenario is that I get to live out Mad Max, but without the movie as a point of reference I won't know how kickass the wasteland is. All the other options lead to either a more devastating WWII or a totalitarian regime taking over the entire planet. That would lead to either a terrible world or nuclear revolt and then...Mad Max!
I'd take my upgrade and leave. I could't kill a baby, and certainly not Baby Hitler. Apart from the fact that WWII probably jumped the US ahead 50 or 60 years in terms of technology, there's no telling what kind of repercussions a world without Hitler would have to endure.
Maybe it'd be awesome. Maybe we'd be living in a world where the Japanese won WWII and took over the planet. It's too big a risk to take. I'd much rather just collect my Time Machine upgrade and jump around time collecting extremely valuable objects that wouldn't be missed in their own time (a sack of gold nuggets from 1800's California, a few copies of Action Comics #1, that sort of thing).
Maybe it'd be awesome. Maybe we'd be living in a world where the Japanese won WWII and took over the planet. It's too big a risk to take. I'd much rather just collect my Time Machine upgrade and jump around time collecting extremely valuable objects that wouldn't be missed in their own time (a sack of gold nuggets from 1800's California, a few copies of Action Comics #1, that sort of thing).
I'm pretty sure changing such a drastic event would mean some of us wouldn't be born,due to people changing locations and whatnot and other things. It sure would suck killing baby Hitler then ceasing to exist because your great great grandfather joined the army and went somewhere else rather then his home or whatever.
I wouldn't do it. It's possible Hitler wasn't that important in the grand scheme of things. He was the man there at the time, but Germany was a bankrupt nation facing humiliating terms from WW1, which must have stung especially harshly for such an up to then proud nation. War could have easily broken out again, and the man in charge of Germany instead of Hitler might have been a much more intelligent man. No, the devil you know is better than the one you don't.
I wouldn't take the chance of accidentally fucking up the history even more. Maybe WW2 and the Holocaust were steps in a process that helped mankind avert an even greater catastrophe. Or I could create a paradox in which by killing Hitler I cause myself to not exist, so thus I can't kill Hitler which means I do exist which means I kill him, thus canceling my existence and making it so I can't kill him, which means he lives and I live, at which point I can kill him...
And even if I could avoid the above-mentioned cluster-fucks of paradoxes, I would rather just put him on a different path rather than kill him. Encourage him to get into that art school he wanted to go to perhaps? Maybe he'd just become a decent if somewhat anti-semitic artist. Plus there is a chance that some other demagogue would have risen to power instead who might have been even more horrible (or worse, more competent).
I believe that our timeline shouldn't be messed with, things CAN get worse than they are...
And even if I could avoid the above-mentioned cluster-fucks of paradoxes, I would rather just put him on a different path rather than kill him. Encourage him to get into that art school he wanted to go to perhaps? Maybe he'd just become a decent if somewhat anti-semitic artist. Plus there is a chance that some other demagogue would have risen to power instead who might have been even more horrible (or worse, more competent).
I believe that our timeline shouldn't be messed with, things CAN get worse than they are...
Two words: Time Paradox.
Yeah, what Hitler did and everything else that came after that was atrocious but I would not do it. It would fuck up everything. EVERYTHING. Our world as we know it would be something completely different.
Who knows... maybe the future after that would be WORSE.
[sup]Plus. Stalin was just as bad... if not worse.[/sup]
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The Soviet union would be the biggest, baddest ************ of the era... that equals some crazy shit going down.
Yeah, what Hitler did and everything else that came after that was atrocious but I would not do it. It would fuck up everything. EVERYTHING. Our world as we know it would be something completely different.
Who knows... maybe the future after that would be WORSE.
[sup]Plus. Stalin was just as bad... if not worse.[/sup]
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Damn. EXACTLY what I meant.DazBurger said:I have posted this before and now I post it again.
No Hitler - Stronger Stalin
The Soviet union would be the biggest, baddest ************ of the era... that equals some crazy shit going down.
I would wait until Hitler got his "ideals" and then smack him a couple times until he "forgot" his ideals and didn't run for office at all.
If anything I'd sack the ruling board of the Austrian Art School. Even if he went on to lead the National Socialist Party, he'd be tainted by the hippies.