If You Could Kill or Save One Person from History, Who Would It Be?

[Warhammer]

Ya damn right I stole this from Reddit. Answer the question.

 

[Duke]

Save Abraham Lincoln



Kill Adolf Hitler

 

[Piper Maru]

Billy Mays (Save)

 

[DarkSentinel]

I'd kill Hitler personally, just to watch the light leave his beady, mass-murdering eyes, that sonuvab****.

 

[the last son]

Save Malcolm x

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I'd say either Martin Luther King or Abraham Lincoln.

I know people are going to say Hitler about who to kill, but I remember discussing this in the past before, and someone brought up a good point. If it wasn't Hiter, there were still many others who sided with Hitler who thought just like him. If it wasn't Hitler rising up and taking down the unsuccessful Weimar Republic it would've been somebody else to rise out of the Nazi to take over.

I'd kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Wait? Somebody did kill him? How come nobody told me that?

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I wouldn't mess with World War 2 by killing Hitler, because the butterfly effect would be so unknown from going back that far. Along with all the awful, terrible stuff, you could arguably say that WW2 led to advances in our ability to explore space through rocket technology, splitting the atom, the creation of Israel, the United Nations, a peaceful Japan and Germany that was more interested in business, cars and wacky sexual fetish videos than they were in empire building, and who knows who wouldn't have been born due to other people being saved.

Maybe killing Bin Laden a decade before 9/11. I can't think of anything good that resulted from that.

Save? Maybe Robert F Kennedy. I always liked him better than JFK for some reason, and I think he would have made a much better President than Nixon.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I'd auction off either one to see how much money I'd get, and who people would pay me to save/kill.

 

[Tanin]

I'd save Steve Irwin

 

[jonathancrane]

I would kill Jack the Ripper.

I would save Kitty Genovese.

 

[Guts]

What if you stopped hitler from committing suicide so that he could possibly be captured alive? just to find out how it could possibly change history.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Abraham Lincoln's one of my ideas because it was his death that pretty much put the breaks on the original plan on reconstruction, which involved punishing the south for seceeding and possibly jailing major characters involved in the Confederacy. Also, there was supposed to be protection and other details for now freed African Amercians that would have better ensured that the south wouldn't take advantage and continue power abuse against African Americans.

After Lincoln was assassinated, Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice president, let the former confederacy off with a slap on the risk, allowed laws that took advantage and straight up abused the rights of African Americans to pass, which led to even harsher laws being passed, and possibly pushed African American civil rights to not be fully realized until a century later.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

What if you stopped hitler from committing suicide so that he could possibly be captured alive? just to find out how it could possibly change history.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Abraham Lincoln's one of my ideas because it was his death that pretty much put the breaks on the original plan on reconstruction, which involved punishing the south for seceeding and possibly jailing major characters involved in the Confederacy. Also, there was supposed to be protection and other details for now freed African Amercians that would have better ensured that the south wouldn't take advantage and continue power abuse against African Americans.

After Lincoln was assassinated, Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice president, let the former confederacy off with a slap on the risk, allowed laws that took advantage and straight up abused the rights of African Americans to pass, which led to even harsher laws being passed, and possibly pushed African American civil rights to not be fully realized until a century later.

Hmmm, maybe the first scenario would have caused Civil War II or even Civil War III (see World War I, World War II). Butterfly effects, you can't predict them.

 

[Feenix]

Kill Cheney.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

It would be pretty cool to find out what today would look like if you changed something in the past.

I'd probably save Lincoln

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

The problem with killing the tyrants of history there's no important lesson learned for the rest of us. Which means we can make the same mistakes in much worse ways.

The problem with saving martyrs is they become shadows of their former selves which inspires far less people to take up their cause.

I'd leave history alone.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I wonder what would happen if you tried to save Julius Caesar.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

The problem with killing the tyrants of history there's no important lesson learned for the rest of us. Which means we can make the same mistakes in much worse ways.

The problem with saving martyrs is they become shadows of their former selves which inspires far less people to take up their cause.

I'd leave history alone.

Yeah. At the end of the day, I kind of agree with this.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I wonder what would happen if you tried to save Julius Caesar.

Probably nothing. That was such a long time ago, history would likely have evened itself out by our time, and Ceasar did not necessarily have a terribly unique view on the exercise of power.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I wonder what would happen if you tried to save Julius Caesar.

You'd probably get stabbed 50 times.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I'd save the creator of this thread from making this thread.

 

[Piper Maru]

I'd save the creator of this thread from making this thread.

You're a hero, Mark.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I'd stop whoever started the religious debate thread and got the Cthulhu thread deleted. It doesn't matter what religion I actually ascribe to, the Cthulhu thread was the best thread on the Hype.

As to this, I'd save Steve Irwin. The world was a darker place without him.

 

[Marvolo]

Without being able to know exactly what the consequences were I wouldn't save or kill anyone from history. I could make things horribly worse if I changed the wrong thing. That being said, I would like to know what might have happened if Alexander hadn't died so young, and if Caesar wasn't assassinated. Imo Caesar would have been good for Rome had the Senators not been hellbent on maintaining the status quo that was dragging Rome down.