Poll: Would you time-travel and kill Hitler?
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I wouldn't for the same reason I wouldn't stop the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Because without it, there would be no Godzilla, and it would have effectively killed Japanese culture. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if there was no NGE.
There is much artwork inspired by the ultimate evil of Hitler, and they are masterpieces. I mean imagine a world without Inglorious Bastards. *shudder*
There is much artwork inspired by the ultimate evil of Hitler, and they are masterpieces. I mean imagine a world without Inglorious Bastards. *shudder*
Time isnt made of lines. Its made of circles!...Thats why clocks are roundcelladoth said:
why is everone wanting to go back and kill hitler? why not go back and kill Lenin?
Besides, Temporal Causality suggests that if and when time travel becomes a reality It is entirely possible that one in the future, believing themselves to be right, goes back in time to try and assassinate Hitler before he gains power, fails, and creates the man he set out to destroy. Or this individual outright replaces Hitler to maintain the time-line. Assuming Time travel is a scientific reality it is entirely possible that the Hitler we know of is not the real person, but an agent maintaining temporal cohesion.
Fuck the present, I'd kill him. He deserved to die, and I highly doubt that the impending "power vacuum" people keep going on about would be filled by anyone crazier then Hitler himself. Seriously, Hitler was an insane, sadistic, anti-semite. Worse, he was an excellent public speaker. If he'd been killed before taking power then millions of deaths could have been averted.
Germany would still be oppressed and most likely poor.
We wouldn't have a lot of inventions since the Nazis did help invent a lot of things.
I say no.
We wouldn't have a lot of inventions since the Nazis did help invent a lot of things.
I say no.
hitler was a very incompetent commander, he often ignored advise of his advisors and that is one of the main reasons nazi german lost the warjojoemon said:
Yes. However, history books would call it a "suicide."
To be seriously honest, no. Let's face facts: if any one of us had a time machine, we would only use it for our own selfish purposes. Killing a man in the name of good is still wrong, regardless of how justified your motives are.
To be seriously honest, no. Let's face facts: if any one of us had a time machine, we would only use it for our own selfish purposes. Killing a man in the name of good is still wrong, regardless of how justified your motives are.
Okay, people, the OP is asking a hypothetical - clearly the OP is ignoring any physics or time-travel fiction issues. "Blah blah paradox," or "blah blah impossible" comments are not helpful.
On topic: no. But not for any reasons mentioned.
Everyone talking about the war, remember that there was an Axis - three nations. Japan would have still attacked us, so WW2 would still have happened. It could even be argued that the war with Japan would have caused enough tech advancement so we wouldn't be much behind where we are now.
On the other hand, Hitler was the enemy that brought much of the world together. The horrors of WW2 helped shape the international laws that have made peace possible. The fact that some modern nations don't play by these rules doesn't make them any less important.
Other posters have also had some good reasons (Hitler being a dumbass for one, modern technology being another, modern culture being the third) which I also agree with.
On topic: no. But not for any reasons mentioned.
Everyone talking about the war, remember that there was an Axis - three nations. Japan would have still attacked us, so WW2 would still have happened. It could even be argued that the war with Japan would have caused enough tech advancement so we wouldn't be much behind where we are now.
On the other hand, Hitler was the enemy that brought much of the world together. The horrors of WW2 helped shape the international laws that have made peace possible. The fact that some modern nations don't play by these rules doesn't make them any less important.
Other posters have also had some good reasons (Hitler being a dumbass for one, modern technology being another, modern culture being the third) which I also agree with.
Nope, traveling through time to the past is impossible, if it was possible, it would probably destroy the universe when it realized "oh fuck, this thing that happened makes no goddamned sense!"
Forward time travel is totally possible though, and the technology exists today. Ask yourself, if someone accelerates to insane speeds in a spaceship, and they age 1 year while everything else ages 50 years, what is that if not time travel?
Forward time travel is totally possible though, and the technology exists today. Ask yourself, if someone accelerates to insane speeds in a spaceship, and they age 1 year while everything else ages 50 years, what is that if not time travel?
Crap, I'm torn between not wanting to fuck up everything, and wanting to be beamed 50 feet above his head and delivering the mother of all drop-kicks on him.
Eh... I guess I wouldn't. As awesome as it would be to drop-kick Hitler to death, too many things could go wrong.
Eh... I guess I wouldn't. As awesome as it would be to drop-kick Hitler to death, too many things could go wrong.