Ethic question: would you kill baby Hitler if you could go back in time? / myLot

Budennovsk, Russian Federation

November 8, 2015 3:54am CST

This questions appeared on many english sites in the end of October. Soon it also appeared on some Russian forums. The statistic of one russian 115.000 users forum showed: yes - 21% no- 36% not sure -14% i tried it, it didn't work - 26% So almost 3rd part of users used humour. Aslo people who answered "yes" forgot that perhaps another mad ruler would have taken Hitler's place. As for me, i am not sure because the situation in the question is unreal. Any comments?

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Anna

@LadyDuck (470745)

• Switzerland

8 Nov 15

I read a wonderful book of Stephen King of a man who went back to the past to change the story, he wanted to save J.F.Kennedy. It does not work, he saved Kennedy, but so many horrible things happened next that he regretted what he did.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

8 Nov 15

Why not go back and adopt him and raise him to be a loving person instead?

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44998)

• Preston, England

8 Nov 15

given that I could erase myself from history with such a drastic change of time lines no, but given the opportunity I would try anyway

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Carl Intal

@intal_carl (299)

• Quezon City, Philippines

9 Nov 15

For me No, but I will make him change.

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69373)

• Germany

8 Nov 15

So you are a religious person and believe in original sin and that a new born baby can be evil through and through?

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AtypicalRussian

@TypicalRussian (747)

• Budennovsk, Russian Federation

8 Nov 15

No, i didnt say that. I mean destiny. If a person doesnt exist in the past, somebody else will take his place and role there. Otherwise we wouldn't have existed now in the same condition we exist now(perhaps i made mistake in grammar). Bradburry's sound of thunder tells what can happen if the past was changed. Anyway this topic is far from real and not convincing, so even all these answers are hypothetic

Boingboing

@boiboing (13153)

• Northampton, England

8 Nov 15

No. I would not kill anybody. But I might take him home and be nice to him and then perhaps he'd have grown up to be a much better person.

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Jade Platypus

@JadePlatypus (234)

• Australia

9 Nov 15

Good question. I agree with @PhredWreck 's comment about who else might have come along, and also, disgusting to think about though it is, there was a lot of research done during that time on human behaviour that we utilise today, not only from the aftermath of his reign, but in fact on the experiments conducted at the time on prisoners. I know it's yucky, but truth is many people reading this post will be utilising behaviours learned from those experriments, without realising where the knowledge came from.

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Cristian Ichim

@Cristi_Ichim (3741)

• Bucharest, Romania

8 Nov 15

I would not kill him

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