Would you kill baby Hitler?

[Smashlilman]

If all you do is delay WW2 by a few years, Germany would have conquered the UK with their better armaments. They would have installed Edward back as King, Canada would protest at first, but eventually cede that Edward is the rightful king anyway, and considering the ideological similarities to Nazi Germany and Canada's government at the time, it would be like two peas in a pod. So suddenly the United States of America has a large country with a ton of natural resources that is basically a client state of Nazi Germany on its northern border.

Would the Nazis have even risen to power with out Hitler?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Would the Nazis have even risen to power with out Hitler?

I'd bet on it, or some other kind of expansionist nationalistic movement. Hitler wasn't a supervillain with mind control powers who orchestrated the whole thing on his own.

 

[The_Shadow]

I would raise and train a pack of german wolves. Once the wolves are ready, I'd go back in time and have them kill the parents, along with baby Hitler.

 

[Shikamaru]

No I wouldn't, as there's no guarantee that a similar dictatorship wouldn't have occurred at around the same time period.

Too many people view Hitler the same way they view fictional supervillains. "Once upon a time there was a boy named Hitler, he was so evil that he one day took over the world." That's pretty much how most people think of him, except that was never the full story. Hitler merely took advantage of the circumstances created in Germany by the stupidity of WWI. Some other evil **** would have most likely done the same.

In that sense Hitler is overrated.

 

[Mightmitenot]

He said, and I quote, "Hell yeah. You gotta step p, man". And then later added, citing the "Michael Fox movies": "It could have a dangerous effect on everything else, but I'd do it -- I mean, Hitler,".

A good act is an inherently good act. An act for the greater good is a non-good act done in the hope that much good results from it.

Murdering a baby is an inherently evil act. I'd cut back arrange for Hitler's father to move to a place where he earns a better place of employment and keep young Adolf away from his Jew hating teacher.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Eh, I prefer if we took a page out of Tarantino and dealt with him that way. Heh.

Also, killing Hitler wouldn't stop nothing. The nazi party would have just put someone else in place. Quentin was smart enough to kill off all of the key players in the movie. Those folks would still be alive with Hitler baby or not. This is the same type question and answer ''I would go back in time to kill Hitler'' How would you do it, really? Do you have money of that time period? Do you also kill his parents? Can you speak the language? Do you have a back up in case something goes wrong? Stephen King already did it recently with JFK. Lawd.

 

[Mightmitenot]

This.

This "would you kill baby Hitler" question reminded me of the Family Guy episode where Stewie and Brian went back in time to stop 9-11 and yea.

I feel like the right thing to do is yea kill Hitler. I mean looking at his future, yea. But killing him, what happens now? If Hitler didn't rise to power, who did? What other problems would we have?

There's too many uncertainties to say yes. It's the right thing to do but looking ahead, it's at the same time not the right thing to do because what other else could have happened if WWII didn't happen and Hitler wasn't born?

There seems to be Creationist thinking in this. Your premise seems to be 'Micro history altering can be done, but not Macro.

 

[Unbreakable Lex]

If I had a time machine, I'd use it to take a picture of Jesus.

 

[Greens]

A good act is an inherently good act. An act for the greater good is a non-good act done in the hope that much good results from it.

Murdering a baby is an inherently evil act. I'd cut back arrange for Hitler's father to move to a place where he earns a better place of employment and keep young Adolf away from his Jew hating teacher.

Good point. Killing him is hardly the only option. You could just bribe the art school he wasn't allowed to attend.

 

[Spiderine]

And yet he meets some other influential figure with same form of thinking. You can remove the factors that led to the man or you could remove the man. I think both are inconsequential. Doesn't change the events that led to WWI and the aftermath. And a world depression that followed along with ongoing imperialism. Hitler was hardly the only one who shared a vengeful sentiment.

 

[terry78]

Basically the rule of thumb is you can't pull a minority report and take out someone for something they haven't done yet.

 

[Smashlilman]

And yet he meets some other influential figure with same form of thinking. You can remove the factors that led to the man or you could remove the man. I think both are inconsequential. Doesn't change the events that led to WWI and the aftermath. And a world depression that followed along with ongoing imperialism. Hitler was hardly the only one who shared a vengeful sentiment.

The only differences is that the world could have gotten a German Napoleon instead of a genocidal Nazi Hitler.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The only differences is that the world could have gotten a German Napoleon instead of a genocidal Nazi Hitler.

Unfortunately, killing Jews was not a sentiment unique to Hitler, within Germany or even within Europe itself. Even my country, if not for our ties to the British empire, who knows which side of WW2 we would have ended up on.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

I feel like asking this to someone running for President would be kind of a trick question.

 

[Duke]

If I had a time machine, I'd use it to take a picture of Jesus.

What purpose would that serve? If I had a time machine & traveled back to the time he was on Earth, I'd worship him & give him glory instead.

 

[Spiderine]

The only differences is that the world could have gotten a German Napoleon instead of a genocidal Nazi Hitler.

Its possible......you may be right. But the world had seen homicidal genocides before Hitler. And the world has stood by and let it happen since Hitler as well. There were many atrocities committed by other individuals. Whose to say another wouldn't have taken Hitler's place in that time frame.

 

[Boy Scout]

Well as weird as this sounds i'd raise the kid to be a good person, a little guidance does no harm i say.

I was gonna say the same thing.

 

[SV Fan]

And yet he meets some other influential figure with same form of thinking. You can remove the factors that led to the man or you could remove the man. I think both are inconsequential. Doesn't change the events that led to WWI and the aftermath. And a world depression that followed along with ongoing imperialism. Hitler was hardly the only one who shared a vengeful sentiment.

A less charismatic NAZI leader might have lead Germany going Communist. The Communist Party and Nazi party in the late 20s seem to be in a head to head race to try win over as many disenfranchised people as possible, with the Nazi's winning out in the end. Ironically the Communists won out in the end(when East Germany went communist). lol

Germany going communist might have been worse for Europe and the rest of the world when you think that they would have the Russians backing them

 

[Thundercrack85]

I realize the average joe probably hasn't read a biography on Hitler, but it is worth noting that Hitler's influence on the Nazis party was huge. I doubt it would be a household name without him. He put it on the map, a fact some of the earlier Nazi members really resented. And we're talking about the 20's here. Long before they came to real power.

Also, Hitler completely purged the leftwing elements in the party, and his only equals, really changing the party's very nature (you never heard much about the socialist part of national socialist after that).

A lot of the key members who joined the Nazis party would probably flock to other extremist groups in a Hitler-absent world.

 

[britmotley]

It's all irrelevant,the Germans couldn't conquer Europe with guns - Now they rule Europe from an office,running an organization that was set up to make sure Europe didn't go to war again . :-(

 

[Mightmitenot]

And yet he meets some other influential figure with same form of thinking. You can remove the factors that led to the man or you could remove the man. I think both are inconsequential. Doesn't change the events that led to WWI and the aftermath. And a world depression that followed along with ongoing imperialism. Hitler was hardly the only one who shared a vengeful sentiment.

Or... he does not meet another influential anti Semite teacher, become a police informant on political parties leading to him joining the future Nazi Party. Don't presume what did happen one way will happen the same way. That way leads to expecting hitting the lotto off of a fortune cookie means weekly lotto wins for life.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

Basically the rule of thumb is you can't pull a minority report and take out someone for something they haven't done yet.

I agree. He wasn't a monster when he was a baby, so killing him then would make the killer a monster.

 

[Mightmitenot]

I'm going to go after the "Inevitable course of history" theme. Our most recent history significant event is the election of a black man to the President's office in 2008.

Does anyone really give credence to the idea that had Obama been caught smoking a joint as a teen and never gotten into law school some OTHER unknown black legislator would be Prez right now?

Point is the "for want of a nail" scenario does hold true on occasion and changes made around A&B may lead to not G or H.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well, it's safe to say America would eventually have a black president post-Civil Rights Era, and given America's limited political milieu, he would probably be another Ivy Leaguer. Obama's race played a big role in propelling him towards the presidency.

It might just take 10 more years. But these things sort of reach critical mass.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Kill a baby? It's a very Christian and Jewish thought that a baby can carry sin. The correct answer would be no, you can nurture a child and show him humanity. It also probably wouldn't stop fascism in Europe. That would take a great deal more.