Poll: Would You Kill Baby Hitler?

[gphjr14]

Probably go back and bring him to the present then leave him at a hospital.

 

[Ciler]

Hitler actually made some big mistakes had some serious flaws that helped to end the war much quicker. If someone more competent and less egomaniacal was in charge, things could have been much worse.

Check out "How Hitler Lost the War": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243976/

 

[Sexy Street]

No, because it would fuck up the current time-line we have.

 

[teisjm]

I'd just take him with me.
If he's not there, he cannot grow up and become evil.
I would place him in care in someplace where they taught him propper morals, which would prevent him form becoming the evil hitler we all know about.

 

[Porygon-2000]

I believe Tv Tropes has an article on this very subject - Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act

(on bringing this up, based on the mass of comments already here, I assume on probabilities that I have been ninja'd)

Aaaanyway, No, not really. Not to avoid messing with history, but cause I really just don't want the time travel powers. I wouldnt be able to wrap my head around the tenses, man!

 

[tehroc]

To kill a figure of such historic importance could forever cripple us in ways we cannot imagine. Now the USA not constantly trying to relive its only true major military victory would probably be a good thing but god look at all the things round the word we attribute to the war. The fact the cold war never went nuclear is a testament to Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The current EU might never have become possible. NATO might never have been formed. The cold war might never have happened.

Yes by removing Hitler before the second world war ever kicked off could have saved millions, prevented the holocaust, but, what would have happened if we had never learnt those lessons when we did? What could we have done without the ability to look back on what happened?

Id much rather have the history we know, no matter how dark it might be, than risk provoking something far far worse.

Without Germany, Russia would have been the main power in Europe and would have taken most of Northern Europe. Russia was never our allies, we just shared a common enemy.

I'd take him to Israel.

You mean Palestine?

 

[Alade]

I would never take the risk and change anything in the past, too many ways to get yourself killed by eliminating your present self.

PS: Yes I value my life over all the lives he took, but then again I value my life over all 6 billion + on the planet now.

 

[redisforever]

See, I think that Hitler did some good. Wait, read the rest. I am Jewish, and my family did survive the war, and holocaust. But, because of this, (correct me if I'm wrong) the state of Israel was formed, and iff it hadn't been, my parents wouldn't have moved there, meet, get married, have me, etc. So, no. I wouldn't. Jews died to get a Jewish state formed. Not a fair trade I guess. But if I had time travel powers and it would not screw up everything, then I would give him to another family. It wasn't his fault, it was his upbringing.

 

[Isalan]

If Star Trek has taught us one thing, and one thing only, DO NOT FUCK WITH HISTORY.

OT: Nah, Tabula Rasa. Babies are a blank slate. I'd go back and pretend to be Jewish and be nice to him.

 

[Ampersand]

Obviously i'd kidnap baby hitler, raise him to be less genocidal and train him to become my sidekick as i fight crime with my time traveling superpowers.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

No, I would stop his father violently beating him on a regular basis, give him money so he dosnt have to beg on the streets of munich and finally help him get into that art school he got rejected from.

If that fails, slash the tires on his bike during WW1 so he dosnt deliver the message and get promoted for bravery (and possibly get shelled).

and if that fails...
Cut his throat while hes in hospital after the mustard gas attack.

Why kill him for something, when I could try and stop him doing it in the first place.

 

[sirkai007]

I would go back and kill Uwe Boll before he decided that he needed to turn video games into atrocious movies. Either way a bad German man dies.

Give this man a stout mug of Jagermeister.

I don't drink for religious reasons but I appreciate the gesture. How about a bottle of Thomas Kemper Grape Soda?

 

[soulfire130]

We are talking about going into the past were what has already happened has not happened, yet.
The past will not change unless some X factor changes it, be it kiling baby Hitler or to tell his parents to make sure that he does try to be a painter.

How can you block his views when he was a baby? A baby has no view. When he gets older he wont remember a single thing you would have done. Not unless you stayed with him when he gats older and teach him not to be what he becomes.

You're focusing on technicalities. My point is, the sheer fact that you are now in the past may somehow create a situation in which he either never rises to power, or never has the desire to go on a genocidal rampage.

Is it guaranteed to change anything? No. But the possibility is always there.

And If you being in the past didn't already change the Hilter's rise to power, then if you wanted to change Hilter's past you would have to more proactive measures.

 

[mattttherman3]

Would I kill Hitler? No, because there would be the possibility of me not being born. The only past I would change is my own.

 

[Count UberBlau]

To do anything at all would completely change the present time we live in via the Butterfly effect. It could change for the better or the extreme worse. The risk is just a tad bit too big.

 

[zealk]

no, i wouldent... because it would be pointless. thats the thing about time travel to the past, its already happened. so if i did kill baby hitler, that means in this time line, i have already done this and it dident stop him did it? so either i was unsuccesful, or thats not the real hitler, or even that was his brother who wasent born yet who they gave the same name, regardless you cant change shit! because it is in the past, its already happened! i've already tried, the best i could do is go back and watch, hoping i dont get killed... maybe use the powers to go back and meet Jesus, or Buddha, or any big name guy.

 

[Criquefreak]

It's highly unlikely that Hitler was born fated to become the genocidal maniac he did. By the time that full time traveling powers is an option, it would be a far better use of them to study what all contributed to what happened and create an useful watch list of factors that could prevent this sort of thing in the future.

While I greatly regret what I'm about to say next, it seems worth saying:

The bitter pill to swallow of the holocaust is the humanitarian improvements that came in response to it.

I wish we could have come about them in another way, but preventing Hitler's attrocities may only wind up bringing a much worse scenario further down the time line. There's also the chance that someone else may have picked up the role, leading to quite a bit of baby murdering in the long run, maybe even to a degree that life per life outweighs it.

It's better to learn from the events of history than to try and force the world into an unstable Utopia, especially through means no one except the one traveling through time would ever understand. Just imagine if someone caught on to the one traveling through time; baby-murdering serial killer who claims to be trying to save the world from attrocities. History books would feature this person as a warning, laws would be passed to shoot them on sight.

 

[NotSoNimble]

I hate those who have no love for life.

Let's kill a child because of what it could become. Is that what you are asking?

If reality changed and we could time travel, why not help create a different future, instead of attempting to destroy a future?

 

[WhoaItsBrett]

No, I would not. Babies are innocent, killing a baby is terrible. Even if the baby in question will grow up and cause the suffering of thousands of people. Killing a person in general is bad.
To be honest, I wouldn't even consider using my time traveling powers. I don't think time is something that should be played around with.

 

[drosalion]

No I wouldnt kill him, as it would too drastically change the future and for all i know it could end up being for the worse. If the question is would i have problems with killing his baby morally then no i probably wouldnt.