Right, I want to set some ground rules for this thread. Under no circumstance is this to turn into a thread about Time Travel, that is not the question. Just assume that you had a gun, you knew Hitler's plans and the only way to put a stop to them was to a bullet between the eyes. would you do it? Personally, yes. And with minimal hesitation. The act of not killing would be an act of pure, unmeasurable evil and selfishness. You would be putting your feelings and morales above that of the lives of several million people. That is wrong.
Personally I don't think I would do that if I could... I know I can save the lives of millions of innocents. However, I don't what will happen to the world after the murder and perhaps I'll even endanger my own existence and that of others...
I would say the same thing you don't know how history would change. It could be for the better or it could be for the worse for all we know.
I've explained why the philosophy behind killing Hitler is dumb in other threads. I don't particularly feel like doing it again.
You'd have to be schizophrenic to kill a guy on the assumption he was going to kill 9 million+ people and start a World War killing another 60 million+ if you didn't shoot him.
Nobody deserves death. If I could do it without damaging the timeline (outer-dimensional travel) I would consider putting him in a position where he couldn't harm anybody. Isolation, or something else which wouldn't threaten his life.
Obviously rehabilitation and such would be great but by this time he's already begun killing people. It would still not exactly be moral, but neither is just letting him slaughter millions.
I wouldn't, unless as you say it was the only way to stop him. I'd rather join him in creating a glorious Third Reich in which the holocaust is averted. If I had no idea what the future held, i'm afraid my sense of duty to the state would ultimately have made me a collaborator.
Yes, killing Hitler would be the best solution to the Soviet Unions' problems. Stalin would be happy. Wow, none of you guys ever thought of Stalin during this kurfuffle of a trash talk?
Wait until he kills millions, advise him on how to properly dispose of Britain and raep the Russians and then kill him, but not with a gun, with a huge frozen cumbersome leg of lamb when the war is over.
Forgetting ofcourse the whole paradox, that if I had kill him in the past, there would be no reason for me to kill him in the present... I wouldn't kill Hitler, mainly because humanity learnt a valuable lesson involving National Socialism, and also because of Hitler and the Nazi party, we now have a greater respect for human life. I am not saying that I approve of the Nazis, I am saying because of their brutal regime and what they did, the majority of people in the 21st century have the most resoect for human life in the history of our species.
Lol even Kal didn't read. Of course not, I am no murderer. I would simply have him arrested. If the SS was on to me and they were going to kill me anyways, I would probably take him with me however, only as a last resort.
I did read it. Just because I'm not time traveling doesn't mean that the circumstances that lead to my existence aren't irrevocably changed if I kill Hitler.
