Well? Would you? Vox’s Phil Edwards asked author James Gleick about the history of this unusual philosophical question.
Would you use time travel to kill baby Hitler?
Well? Would you? Vox’s Phil Edwards asked author James Gleick about the history of this unusual philosophical question.
If you know what little Hitler is going to do as a grown up and you have the chance to kill him and do not. You would feel responsible of the death of over 6’000’000 people the rest of your life. I could not live with that.
Good point. 🙂 Hopefully we can still go to heaven if we kill a baby lol
Obviously most people would say yes, you’d be saving many more millions of lives…. the Allied soldiers, the civilians, the Russians, and so on.
BUT… consider this… what would have happened if there was no Hitler? Germany was in the throes of major inflation from the costs of The Great War with thousands of deuschmarks only worth a few bucks and bread too expensive for anybody but the rich. Would millions of German people have suffered or starved to death with disease running rampant?
Russia’s Communists were only just starting to get the country going and they really had no industrial might before the war. What if they became a Cold War threat to the U.S.A. with America WAY ahead of them in nuclear weapons instead of more-or-less tied? Ka-Boom?
Would all the countries of Europe have come together or would they still be their own little empires with their own money and tight borders?
With ALL of America’s Might concentrated on the Pacific, how short would that war have been? Would America even have needed to develop the Atomic Bomb then? Would Japan still be an Ally and an eastern Economic power as it is today?
Not sure what I would do, but one could ask….. What would have been next…?
That’s interesting Bob. Basically what you are saying is that whatever happened as a result of the negative from Hitler also had a positive on the long run. And that is true with everything. Reminds me of yin yang. I like to believe that history pics characters and not the characters making history. In other words if it wasn’t Hitler it would have been someone else as there was a global consciousness for it. But would I still kill baby Hitler? Yes, I think I would 🙂
some one saved hitler as a baby, he was drowning in water.
My god daughter asked me ithe there was a bus stop full of people and a baby in the road with an out of control bus heading towards then all, which would I save, the baby or the queue at the bus stop. turns out by saving the drowning baby lead to the deaths of thousands of jews.
If he was a very ugly baby it would make things so much easier. 🙂 😛
what if the bus queue was equally as ugly lol
The problem stems back further than hitler, maybe this would of saved jews but not stopping the forming of the illiminate, We need to travel back to the early 1700’s and take a few adults out to stop the source of commercial greed
I’d agree on that, we don’t need commercial greed…