Poll: Would you time-travel and kill Hitler?
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If I went back and killed Hitler, that would mean he was already dead and so I wouldn't have to go back in time to kill him after the event. But if I didn't go back in time, then he wouldn't have been killed, so I'd have to go back in time to kill him.
So, Pepsi.
So, Pepsi.
Depends. Whose policy would have taken hold instead?
Perhaps the holocaust would have been prevented, but war was inevitable. The Germans were (wrongly) blamed for EVERYTHING in WW1 (it's definitely a case of "everyone did it", though especially the Habsburg Monarchy, who was allies with Germany, not actually a part of Germany!) and I seriously doubt they would have let that slide with or without Hitler.
Even if they hadn't gone to war with half of Europe then, I suspect war was inevitably coming to Germany in the form of Red Russia, under the leadership of Stalin (Russian expansion would not be checked for long. Hell, WW1 was started in part due to pressures from England and France on the Habsburg Monarchy, asking the Monarchy to annex destabilized territories just so Russia wouldn't gain direct access to the Mediterranean! There were genuine reasons to fear Russia even before WW2 broke out).
Perhaps the holocaust would have been prevented, but war was inevitable. The Germans were (wrongly) blamed for EVERYTHING in WW1 (it's definitely a case of "everyone did it", though especially the Habsburg Monarchy, who was allies with Germany, not actually a part of Germany!) and I seriously doubt they would have let that slide with or without Hitler.
Even if they hadn't gone to war with half of Europe then, I suspect war was inevitably coming to Germany in the form of Red Russia, under the leadership of Stalin (Russian expansion would not be checked for long. Hell, WW1 was started in part due to pressures from England and France on the Habsburg Monarchy, asking the Monarchy to annex destabilized territories just so Russia wouldn't gain direct access to the Mediterranean! There were genuine reasons to fear Russia even before WW2 broke out).
sorry, but No, time travelz tricky business, BE VERY CAREFUL, where you do it, Las time my friend got his leg stuck in a tree, because we forgot to take into account plant growth, and erosion. this was quite difficult to explain to his parents...
Plus stupid paradoxes, can get very annoying...
Plus stupid paradoxes, can get very annoying...
No. Changing history screws everything up (butterfly effect, yo) and I personally don't think you can alter time that way anyways.
....one good thing about time travel;
when you accidently become your own grandfather, you get to ground your parents!!!
...wait, your parents, would no longer be your parents...
..you would never have been born...
...so, if you were never born; you could have never time traveled...
when you accidently become your own grandfather, you get to ground your parents!!!
...wait, your parents, would no longer be your parents...
..you would never have been born...
...so, if you were never born; you could have never time traveled...
LightspeedJack said:
Do you really think that Hitler was the only guy who wanted to murder them all?
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Just saying.
But no I wouldn't want to kill him.
But I would love to kill some spiders and see what happens.
No.
I'd time travel and advise him to put those plans of invading the soviets on hold for a while because the allies are going to be difficult to handle once they make their move.
Would be fun to see what the world would be like if he got that kind of intel.
I'd time travel and advise him to put those plans of invading the soviets on hold for a while because the allies are going to be difficult to handle once they make their move.
Would be fun to see what the world would be like if he got that kind of intel.
You can't sweep up all the mistakes that humanity makes. All you can hope for is to not repeat them, and learn from the suffering of others. (Someone famous must have said that at one point... Damned memory!)
Even when equipped with a time-traveling device.
I myself didn't live when the war was made, so I have little knowledge of what ramifications applied in that time and era, ergo I never experienced it.
Still, I would serve as a really, really poor agent of time-traveling assassin. Someone else should probably take the job... Like Bond, for instance!
Even when equipped with a time-traveling device.
I myself didn't live when the war was made, so I have little knowledge of what ramifications applied in that time and era, ergo I never experienced it.
Still, I would serve as a really, really poor agent of time-traveling assassin. Someone else should probably take the job... Like Bond, for instance!
Fuck no. Have you played singularity???!? 0_0 (though admittidly some of the surprises could be predicited, amazing game all the same.)
I also agree with Pips on this.
I also agree with Pips on this.
Have you even seen Back to the Future? Fucking with the space-time continuum is a really bad idea.
As appealing as the idea seems, I would not because who knows what that would alter in the time line. For all we know, it could make things worse.
Actually, Red Alert explores the idea of a time line where Hitler was killed before WWII started. I would rather avoid those scenarios, even if it meant J. K. Simmons being President one day.
Actually, Red Alert explores the idea of a time line where Hitler was killed before WWII started. I would rather avoid those scenarios, even if it meant J. K. Simmons being President one day.
It wouldn't work; and the question doesn't make sense. If I time traveled and killed Hitler, then why did I time travel in the first place?
But humanity had to learn from that horror. Can you imagine any western country going down that path again? you take that lesson away and who knows where we would be? Better off in the short run, but long term? No-one can be sure and no-one has that right, we can only change the future