Indeed. Our technology would be further back and the world would be even more over populated than what it is now. I would not go back to kill Hitler.
Poll: Would you time-travel and kill Hitler?
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Hell no. Going back in time and changing even a minuscule detail could vastly change the future in ways you can't even imagine, and Hitler no doubt helped to shape the world as we know it. While we all wish he could have died a lot more violently, I'm content that he is now become the butt of all jokes.
No, but not for the reasons others mention. I'd never time travel if it was possible to before my sisters birth (after mine). When you consider the slightest change in timing and angle in conception (eww gross) could result in a completely different person being born than my sister or I. In fact I'd only use time travel to go back into the past, to make investments and other stuff that I can only access from the future, so hopefully it doesn't change anything that happened to me.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't exist if it wasn't for events of World War 2 that cause two of my grandparents to meet, and I can think of many other people I meet who would also likely not be here. This is my time, it's only rational I'd defend my own existence. What possible reason could you give me to go against that?
Of course not ... Allies won. Killing Hitler might mean someone else takes power and beats the allies whilst being equally bad or worse than Hitler.
Why would I possibly endanger the future?
Why would I possibly endanger the future?
I would not kill him, if anything i would try to veer him in a different direction, or like Louie CK once said "i would Rape him!" Hitler would not going around killing people after that.
As the real answer:
I wouldn't. I'd just win in the lottery or gamble and bet my way to easy living.
As the boring answer:
Thinking of the consequences of time travel is just way too complex to ponder. Even going back a second could have catastrophic effects, so I'm not getting into that at all. And I don't think time travel will ever become possible.
I wouldn't. I'd just win in the lottery or gamble and bet my way to easy living.
As the boring answer:
Thinking of the consequences of time travel is just way too complex to ponder. Even going back a second could have catastrophic effects, so I'm not getting into that at all. And I don't think time travel will ever become possible.
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though I don't remember if it was that a time travelling assassin kills him or someone else does
I may be wrong, but the thing is that Hitler gets killed and someone else takes his place, making shit get even more serious
though it's quite awesome, see, it implies World War 2 being fought with fucking mechs and giant robots
No. He was essential to human history and (speaking from an American's view), WWII pulled us out of the Great Depression (along with FDR's programs). And lead to help lead a women's movement that showed they could be as good as men (Rosie the Riveter). So before you say thats evil and egotistical for my country, remember that by saying so, you dont think that women should have had the rights they were getting and the help the movement gave, cause no other action in human history would have given them the opportunity.
though... If you did, before he go to power (him as a baby) you may have been able to curb Communism. Though I dont think thats a really equalizing plus.
though... If you did, before he go to power (him as a baby) you may have been able to curb Communism. Though I dont think thats a really equalizing plus.
Nope, the only real reason Germany lost was because of the I AM RIGHT, I'M FUCKING GOD, MY REICH WILL LAST 1000 YEARS JEWS AND COMMUNISTS MUST ALL DIE, THE SLAVS WILL BE OUR SLAVES, PURE AYRAN RACE! mentality the Austrain nutcase had. He killed anyone giving him advice other than "Good plan mien furhur" and made the worse battle plans (albiet Blitzkrieg but that doesn't work against a prepared enemy) that most dictators do.
If anything I'd kill Hienrich Himmler, the man who created to the solution of the Jewish problem, the Nazi Death Camps. He also was head of the secret police (or Gestapo) and was Hitlers right hand man. If Himmler was out of the picture the Nazi's would still be using inefficent methods (firing squads and such) to kill Jews, it would still be a massacare but not on the scale it was. I also doubt Hitler would get replaced by Himmlers replacement because the asshole was a fucking paranoid and delusional fucktard.
Killing Hitler would also do nothing to slow down or damage the Nazi war machine, it could only benifit it because the prick made such terrible strategies. Hitler proved what could happen if you push a country around for too long, Hitler gave his people hope and gave the rest of the world the finger on their behalf. He rebuilt their economy after the high taxes the Allies made Germany pay and took back their original lands. Nazi Germany needed to happen, or it would be something else. History shows us that unstable countries like 20th century Germany are most likely to become dictatorships.
If anything I'd kill Hienrich Himmler, the man who created to the solution of the Jewish problem, the Nazi Death Camps. He also was head of the secret police (or Gestapo) and was Hitlers right hand man. If Himmler was out of the picture the Nazi's would still be using inefficent methods (firing squads and such) to kill Jews, it would still be a massacare but not on the scale it was. I also doubt Hitler would get replaced by Himmlers replacement because the asshole was a fucking paranoid and delusional fucktard.
Killing Hitler would also do nothing to slow down or damage the Nazi war machine, it could only benifit it because the prick made such terrible strategies. Hitler proved what could happen if you push a country around for too long, Hitler gave his people hope and gave the rest of the world the finger on their behalf. He rebuilt their economy after the high taxes the Allies made Germany pay and took back their original lands. Nazi Germany needed to happen, or it would be something else. History shows us that unstable countries like 20th century Germany are most likely to become dictatorships.
He could have won. He shouldnt have fucked with Russia. Originally they had an agreement of neutrality. The Europeans and American Allies would have never made past France. Especially with Japan mucking up the Pacific and cruising through China.Blatherscythe said:
My belief in time travel being a very very bad idea prevents such a thing. Kind of like that short story 'A Sound of Thunder' (NOT THE MOVIE GOD DAMN YOU).
Yeah right, as if you could 'kill' people.Wildcard5 said:
OP: I don't know. It is quite tempting but one of the rookie mistakes with time travel is that . You could potentially destroy the universe. I would kill him then go back to the present day to see how things changed. If t was a bad choice then I go back and prevent me killing him in a Back to the Future Part II-esque odyssey. If present day is good or better than it already was then I would never go back.
EDIT: I mised the word 'kill' up there, because I was distracted.
Hah, it's even a trope.Mariner said:
Relevant to this discussion:
Frankly, if time travel existed, at all, at any point in human history, we'd be so utterly fucked by petty tyranny that it'd make Hitler look like a schoolyard bully in comparison. Time travel is, like, the ultimate tool for a small group of people to have the fate of the rest of humanity in an unbreakable grip about its neck.
Bah, scooped if only because I was wrestling with the Captcha sequence at the time.irani_che said: