Current Events > Hypothetical: Would you kill baby Hitler?

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You're transported to 1889, December 7th for 20 minutes, right in Hitler's home where Klara Hitler is feeding her little baby boy. Who as of then is nothing but a bastion of innocence.

This is your and humanity's one and only chance of changing the darkest chapter of Western 20th Century history. But you have to be the one who does it and "it" is Infanticide.



Would you do it? Or do you think it's wrong?
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What's wrong with killing an evil baby?

He hasn't done anything wrong at that point. Maybe the butterfly effect will save him.

No. I dont fuck with time.

That said if tonight there was a new baby Hitler born and I was somehow 100% convinced that he'd do evils and kill millions then yes.
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They pretty much did this on a TV show. It didn't help things.
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From watching TV for many years history only gets worse when it's changed
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Asherlee10 posted...

Instead of killing him, why not just take him elsewhere and raise him yourself?

However, I suspect that even removing Hitler from the equation we may have still ended up with the same result because of the climate in Germany at that time.

How do you expect to rsise him to not be a psycho in 20 minutes?
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted...

No. I dont fuck with time.

Exactly. The population of the world would be completely different in 2017... like hardly any of the same people from nations involved heavily in the war would exist because the time table of when people are conceived would be all messed up.
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I'd rather go back and amend the Treaty of Versailles. That was more responsible for the rise of Hitler than Hitler's existence. If Hitler were dead, some other similar figure would have still risen to power.
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The Admiral posted...

I'd rather go back and amend the Treaty of Versailles. That was more responsible for the rise of Hitler than Hitler's existence. If Hitler were dead, some other similar figure would have still risen to power.

Indeed, I'd make it much harsher so Germany would never think of pulling this kind of shit again

No, cause I wouldn't be born.

Alternatively I'd be a time bastard.
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No but I'd have a good long talk with his parents
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Asherlee10 posted...

Irony posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Instead of killing him, why not just take him elsewhere and raise him yourself?

However, I suspect that even removing Hitler from the equation we may have still ended up with the same result because of the climate in Germany at that time.

How do you expect to rsise him to not be a psycho in 20 minutes?

Take him with you.

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No because it's a colossal mistake to fuck with the time stream. You have no idea what changes could be caused by it.

Mikablu posted...

No because it's a colossal mistake to fuck with the time stream. You have no idea what changes could be caused by it.

I can think of 6 million Jews who have a pretty decent idea.
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I already have, but it just created a branching timeline where the cold war actually got hot and nuclear war decimated millions of lives across western civilization. It was a major drag.

1/10. Would not commit temporally divergent infanticide again.
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1. he's a baby still. that's just wrong to kill him. he hasn't done anything yet

2. something like that would alter history in such a way that it would be like a holocaust against the world. pretty much everyone alive today would probably cease to exist due to the changes to the timeline

Yes
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I wouldn't kill baby hitler

I'd become his friend and steer him away from the evil path
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Nah. The Nazis could have possibly won if somebody else was in power. The only reason why we won was because Hitler was hellbent on killing non blue eyed and blond people.
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I wouldn't fuck with time travel. It's 2017 and there hasn't been a nuclear war yet. History gets to stay the same.
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If you didn't care what got changed, there are so many other things you could do.
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Yes. I don't know if it would make things worse or better, but it gives a chance for toothbrush mustaches to still be acceptable upper lip wear.
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hollow_shrine posted...

I already have, but it just created a branching timeline where the cold war actually got hot and nuclear war decimated millions of lives across western civilization. It was a major drag.

1/10. Would not commit temporally divergent infanticide again.

Man I miss the Command & Conquer: Red Alert series... and C&C in general. :(
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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

He hasn't done anything wrong at that point. Maybe the butterfly effect will save him.

This. The punishment cannot come before the crime.

I'd kill 1938 Hitler.
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Nope, no way of knowing what would happen in history instead. Might be way worse
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I would given him enlightenment. And maybe some strategic advice.
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Asherlee10 posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

It's baffling, because if Hitler's reign actually prevented something worse, how can we judge him? Just stuff to think about, I guess.

Pretty easily.

If someone murders 6 million people but prevents someone else from doing something bad, it doesn't expunge the 6 million murders.

But what if him doing that somehow prevented somebody else from murdering 10 million people?

Both people who mass murdered people are still wrong.

So I guess the question becomes would you kill a man to save 6 million people that creates a man that will kill 10 million or would you let the man that kills 6 million live so that the man that kills 10 million does not.
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Can't imagine removing Hitler from the equation would change history for the worse. G'bye baby Hitler.
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Vindris_SNH posted...

Can't imagine removing Hitler from the equation would change history for the worse. G'bye baby Hitler.

that's cause you don't know what will happen. anyway, Hitler alone didn't start WW2. plus, he sucked at strategy. one could argue that we won the war because he was such a dumbass. killing him but not changing anything else might cause WW2 to still happen but under a different German leader, and that one might actually listen to their strategists and win the war

No is dominating
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Nope. I've seen that Twilight Zone episode with Katherine Heigl.

-Spoilers-
She kills the baby and herself but a housemaid ends up buying a baby from a homeless woman and then passes him off as Adolf.
Or something like that..
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Darklit_Minuet posted...

The Admiral posted...

I'd rather go back and amend the Treaty of Versailles. That was more responsible for the rise of Hitler than Hitler's existence. If Hitler were dead, some other similar figure would have still risen to power.

Indeed, I'd make it much harsher so Germany would never think of pulling this kind of shit again

That would not help

That said

How the fuck could any of us amend the Treaty of Versailles?
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l33t_iRk3n_Rm33 posted...

Darklit_Minuet posted...

The Admiral posted...

I'd rather go back and amend the Treaty of Versailles. That was more responsible for the rise of Hitler than Hitler's existence. If Hitler were dead, some other similar figure would have still risen to power.

Indeed, I'd make it much harsher so Germany would never think of pulling this kind of shit again

That would not help

That said

How the fuck could any of us amend the Treaty of Versailles?

Spill coke all over it
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That would delay things by about 20 minutes
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l33t_iRk3n_Rm33 posted...

How the fuck could any of us amend the Treaty of Versailles?

For one, make it not completely fuck over Germany to the point where a charismatic leader like Hitler could rise to absolute power.

I would steal baby Hitler and sell him on the black market
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