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UnfairRepresent
04/26/18 6:05:58 AM
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IF you had the ability to do so. - Results (18 votes)
Yes
16.67% (3 votes)
3
No
83.33% (15 votes)
15
I don't know
0% (0 votes)
0
If you had the mechanism to go back in time Earthbound style and destroy the evil before it could even begin, would you do so?

YfHDrbD

Or is that a moral bridge you could not cross?
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Fam_Fam
04/26/18 6:07:31 AM
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no, because if you take a human life, you are no different
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UnfairRepresent
04/26/18 6:09:10 AM
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Fam_Fam posted...
no, because if you take a human life, you are no different

I think Hitler is a little different to a guy who kills 1 guy bro
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JordanPeterson
04/26/18 6:09:13 AM
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Wasn't Hitler an incompetent leader of the military to the point that his generals would lie to him about carrying out his orders at the end? I know he made the dumb ass mistake of invading Russia and getting caught in Russia during winter time. If you kill baby Hitler, a more competent leader of the Nazis might emerge to replace Hitler.
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JTilly
04/26/18 6:10:22 AM
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I would not take away a childs life, irregardless
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UnfairRepresent
04/26/18 6:12:26 AM
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JordanPeterson posted...
I know he made the dumb ass mistake of invading Russia and getting caught in Russia during winter time. If you kill baby Hitler,

The idea that the Germans simply "did not know" that it got cold in Russia was a complete myth.
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pres_madagascar
04/26/18 6:13:36 AM
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No, because while what he did was horrific, because of him, there's been a lot of positive change in the world as a reaction.
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JordanPeterson
04/26/18 6:14:42 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
JordanPeterson posted...
I know he made the dumb ass mistake of invading Russia and getting caught in Russia during winter time. If you kill baby Hitler,

The idea that the Germans simply "did not know" that it got cold in Russia was a complete myth.


Has nothing to do with what I posted, but k.
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Fantastein
04/26/18 6:20:54 AM
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I probably wouldn't tbh, just because I've watched/read too much sci-fi shit and I'd be worried that, as someone else said, it might lead to someone more competent getting into power and possibly winning.

I'm fairly sure that even if Hitler wasn't around, things would've eventually reached a boiling point and something similar (perhaps not exactly the same) would've happened anyway.

Germany was a shitshow after WW1, and people wanted somewhere to direct their frustrations. If Hitler didn't point the finger at the Jews (and others), I daresay someone else would have.
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pegusus123456
04/26/18 6:22:59 AM
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JordanPeterson posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
JordanPeterson posted...
I know he made the dumb ass mistake of invading Russia and getting caught in Russia during winter time. If you kill baby Hitler,

The idea that the Germans simply "did not know" that it got cold in Russia was a complete myth.


Has nothing to do with what I posted, but k.

Save that in a word document for the next time you talk to Unfair
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Patchwork
04/26/18 6:25:20 AM
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Is that my super powerful son? I'd make him fight baby Hitler.
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Sativa_Rose
04/26/18 6:37:28 AM
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I would find him an adopted family in northern Canada somewhere.
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gunplagirl
04/26/18 6:43:48 AM
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Can I just maim him instead? Like maybe sever the tendons in his feet and hands?
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UnfairRepresent
04/26/18 7:23:49 AM
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Sativa_Rose posted...
I would find him an adopted family in northern Canada somewhere.

How?
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awesome999
04/26/18 7:44:11 AM
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Don't mess with the timeline
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pres_madagascar
04/26/18 7:46:34 AM
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UnfairRepresent
04/26/18 7:51:48 AM
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pres_madagascar posted...
awesome999 posted...
Don't mess with the timeline

This

Why not make it better?

Are you arguing that the death of 6 million Jews was a good thing?
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awesome999
04/26/18 7:53:08 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
pres_madagascar posted...
awesome999 posted...
Don't mess with the timeline

This

Why not make it better?

Are you arguing that the death of 6 million Jews was a good thing?

Way to put words in my mouth
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Funkydog
04/26/18 7:53:48 AM
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pres_madagascar posted...
awesome999 posted...
Don't mess with the timeline

This

Mmhmn. You have no idea what changes it could cause. Maybe it might be better, but it could be far worse. Is it a risk worth taking? I don't think so ultimately.
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Anarchy_Juiblex
04/26/18 7:53:49 AM
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We live in a timeline without a nuclear war. Not fucking that up.
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treewojima
04/26/18 8:08:41 AM
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yes, and I'd sing this while I did it:

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The Top Crusader
04/26/18 8:51:31 AM
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Nah. On one hand, you may have someone just the same or even worse in his place in Germany.

Or it goes Command & Conquer: Red Alert and there is no Nazi regime but Stalin and the Soviets are a huge problem.

Or lets say it keeps anything bad from happening. Well, no one going off to war, no returning soldiers, no baby boom, etc... a lot of us probably wouldn't exist because our parents would never exist.
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Lunar_Savage
04/26/18 1:49:54 PM
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Consider the economic ramifications.

America may have completely collapsed without a war at the time. (Presuming no one took his place)

The resulting political landscape would be insane. Shit, the world probably would have been on the fast track to either a pure communist state or a socialist state without the U.S. around.
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Sativa_Rose
04/26/18 1:54:41 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Sativa_Rose posted...
I would find him an adopted family in northern Canada somewhere.

How?


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weekoldhotdog
04/26/18 1:59:54 PM
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tc is salty we are not entertaining the idea of killing baby hitler
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FightingGames
04/26/18 2:00:17 PM
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Fantastein posted...
it might lead to someone more competent getting into power and possibly winning.

i never understood this logic. How does killing someone that is very evil increases the chance of someone else that's more evil replacing him?
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synth_real
04/26/18 2:00:32 PM
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The nationalist movement that spawned the Nazi party was actually around from before the turn of the century. Hitler was just the guy that rode the crest of that wave. The conditions that led to WWII existed independently of him.
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Paragon21XX
04/26/18 2:00:54 PM
#30:


Only if I can also kill baby Lenin.
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Distant_Rainbow
04/26/18 2:01:41 PM
#31:


No, because it wouldn't change anything.

If this thing could only be used to change Hitler's life(and death, if desired), I'd rather go back and blackmail the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts into letting him enroll as a student.
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Warrior_Man
04/26/18 2:03:37 PM
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Devil you know is preferable to the devil you don't.
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Solid Snake07
04/26/18 2:05:32 PM
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no, there's no telling what kind of butterfly effects that could unleash. what happened was horrible but it was a very long time ago and is very much over now.
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kkTheKiller42
04/26/18 2:07:17 PM
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I'm not trying to be the new Barry Allen, i aint fucking with the timeline.
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mew4ever
04/26/18 2:07:47 PM
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Nah I don't want to kill anyone.

I will tell that art school to let Hitler in though.
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DesuDeku
04/26/18 2:09:37 PM
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No because I hate time paradoxes and risking the birth of who knows how many people.
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Big_Nabendu
04/26/18 2:11:48 PM
#37:


No
Now I would stop him from killing himself and let allied forces capture him
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looked
04/26/18 2:16:04 PM
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I dont think it could be done because it would cause a paradox. If time is fixed than I would be unsuccessful because he already happened. But even if time is not fixed, if I go back and kill him, and he is dead before Im even born, what reason would have to grow up, and go back and kill him in the first place?
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FreshSushi
04/26/18 2:18:10 PM
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no, hitlers a product of his times, if it wasn't him it'd probably be someone else spamming dose jews, someone possibly more competent
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DirkDiggles
04/26/18 2:24:25 PM
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How would you know that the baby Hitler was the same one from our timeline. You might end up killing the baby Hitler who ends up saving mankind from an ravenous evil alien horde intent on enslaving us all. Congratulations, you just doomed all of mankind.
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Scotty_Rogers
04/26/18 2:27:24 PM
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Topics like these are stupid. Hitler wasn't an inherently evil person; it's not like he could have never grown up to be a good person. The solution to stopping his evil deeds wouldn't have been to kill him when he was a baby; no, just give him a better upbringing so he grows up to be a good person.

If you'd ever kill any baby, then you're a disgusting scumbag.
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garan
04/26/18 5:54:43 PM
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I'm surprised so few people are saying yes. I certainly would.
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UnfairRepresent
04/26/18 6:46:53 PM
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DirkDiggles posted...
How would you know that the baby Hitler was the same one from our timeline. You might end up killing the baby Hitler who ends up saving mankind from an ravenous evil alien horde intent on enslaving us all. Congratulations, you just doomed all of mankind.

Because I made the topic
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DirkDiggles
04/26/18 8:29:54 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
DirkDiggles posted...
How would you know that the baby Hitler was the same one from our timeline. You might end up killing the baby Hitler who ends up saving mankind from an ravenous evil alien horde intent on enslaving us all. Congratulations, you just doomed all of mankind.

Because I made the topic


If you are going by hypotheticals, you wouldn't know. You willing to let some evil space Hitler enslave us all because you decided to kill a baby Hitler, whose timeline you are not sure he's from?
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UnfairRepresent
04/26/18 8:30:54 PM
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There is only one timeline and it's this one.

Stop watching bad Sci-Fi movies.
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DirkDiggles
04/26/18 8:32:03 PM
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And we can't go back in time either.
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NYmasajista
04/26/18 8:45:27 PM
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Besides there being one less published book in the world I don't see killing Hitler as having any real change to the world, as the men who financed and enabled the Nazi party would have done so anyways as it was in their interest to get rid of socialism.

Now if you went back and took out the people who enabled the Nazi party to grow and helped them throughout the war it would be interesting to see how different things would be today. Many European royal families would be different, the US wouldn't have had either Bush as President, and many companies on both continents would have had very different leadership.

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UnfairRepresent
04/28/18 8:59:49 AM
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NYmasajista posted...
Besides there being one less published book in the world I don't see killing Hitler as having any real change to the world

Sigless user logic
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