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By BourderHouse
@BourderHouse (749)
Philippines
March 12, 2007 8:00pm CST
I thought of this question for weeks, and still never came up with an answer I am satisfied with:
Presented Situation: Mankind has come up with a time machine that will allow you to travel back in time before the Holocaust began. Your mission is to go back in time and assassinate Hitler, in order to prevent the Holocaust from ever happening. If you kill Hitler, the Holocaust will not happen, and all those lives will be spared
The PROBLEM: The Time Machine will only work once, and you only have enough power and accurate coordinates to travel to the time when Hitler was an infant. You have to kill Hitler when he was 2 years old. This will be your only chance to kill him and prevent the horrible atrocity that is the Holocaust.
Question: Can you do it ? Would you kill the baby Adolf Hitler to prevent the Holocaust from ever happening ? Is killing one infant worth saving millions of lives ?
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14 responses
@monica1981 (466)
• United States
13 Mar 07
Killing Adolph Hitler does not necessarily mean there wouldn't be a Holocaust. Many people who lived during his time had the same opinion about people different from themselves that he did. By killing Adolph Hitler, you may be making the grounds of a bigger holocaust, with more atrocities and more deaths. I know this doesn't answer your question, but it's smething to think about.
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
13 Mar 07
...Germany just previous to this was reaLLy into the (dark) occult.. perhaps it's true what you say.. and someone else would have risen to the thing.. but usually I believe it was inspired and orchestrated by the dark spirits/entities, those 1/3 fallen angels, anciently known as 'the gods'.. and tho they influence most people, not so many are as fully influenced as hitler was. Many tho! Far too many. But most not on his scale.. or stalin's, etc..
@aries_0325 (3060)
• Philippines
13 Mar 07
I wouldn't do it. Not that its a baby Hitler. The morality of this isn't if I'd kill an infant to save all the lives lost in the Holocaust. It's if I'd take the chance of making such a dent in time as that. The Holocaust and WWII are huge parts of history. Not having them happen could have serious repercussions.
Without that, there probably wouldn't be the state of Israel. The "Holy Land" might be under Muslim control or Christian control. That'd be a huge difference in today's foreign policy.
Maybe one of the Jews killed would have ended up growing up to be an amazingly charismatic man who absolutely HATES Italians and would convince his Jewish brethren to exterminate all Italians.
I, personally, would not take that risk. The Holocaust was sad, yes. To be honest, I think most Jews would refuse to do this as well. I mean, what would they have to hold over the rest of the world's head?
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@bettyrose20 (997)
• Philippines
13 Mar 07
For my opinion, no , i cant bear to kill a baby eventhough he will be hitler in the near future. And we dont have any right to mingle with the affairs of life.
@777330975 (331)
• Sri Lanka
13 Mar 07
yes I think so too. We do not have the right to decide for the others lives. Today if hitler was destroyed there would be someone else, who would be responsible for a mass destruction so simply I wouldnt do something like Killing a baby may it be Hitler or may it be Bin Laden
@samrat16 (2442)
• India
14 Mar 07
Noway , I don't want to play with past there is a famous saying in hindi language of india " Jo hota hai acche ke liya hota hein " . It means ,"everything which happends ,happens for the best only ." . So Let the past as it was and work for future stop people living around us to create pollution ,corruption and make our society best .
@paulskie (246)
• Philippines
14 Mar 07
The setting is kinda Sci-Fi. I might as well post likewise. lol
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..."Okay, okay I give up. No need to push me inside the time machine, Sargent." (walks into the time machine). Looking back at my Elite Team, I managed to salute my commanding officer one last time before the metallic door of the time machine closed.
All alone inside the time machine, I remembered full well the orders I have to accomplish : " Colonel Paulskie, you have to eliminate Hitler at all cost and prevent the Holocaust from ever happening."
As the time machine engine roared, the digital clock inside the time machine began to count down. 2007.. 2006.. 2005.. 2004..
I began to ponder about the mission. The mission... "...eliminate Hitler... prevent Holocaust..."
It is my duty.. The task is assigned to me.. a lot of people depended on me.. I have to do it..
I must kill Hitler!
:D lol
@AMPHITRITE112 (22)
• United States
13 Mar 07
no i wouldnt kill hitler. he wasnt born evil he was made evil. the person who taught hilter to hate is the one who sould be killed. if you were somehow able to teach hilter a complete different set of beliefs he could of been a different person. a helper instead of a killer
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
13 Mar 07
No, not as an infant, for he hadn't been 'shaped' yet. He may not have been merely mad, but perhaps events or abuses formed him that way. I am not feeling sympathy for him, it would be better for someone to influence his life.. especially as I believe God himslf is letting 'free-will' run its course.. w/o constantly interfering for that wouldn't be free-will and this unavoidable lesson would be learned by nobody. Now if my mission was to take him out as an adult just previous to his atrocities, yes, I could do it, of mine and others own free will. And I would prepare myself by watching many holocaust films..
@divir_vij (1591)
• India
13 Mar 07
good question i'll give my answer after carefully formulating my answer...
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
13 Mar 07
Great question!!
If we knew what we had to do, and why, and were 100% sure BEFORE travelling back in time, why not? If we knew in advance what the baby would become, of course!!
@MissRefinements (11)
• United States
13 Mar 07
Done is done. I think it would be much more productive looking at what can be done now, in this time to change the world.
@neezhom_almaniri (423)
• Malaysia
13 Mar 07
The fact is we cannot change history, and all destiny got wisdom beside them. You are not you now if history is not like what happened before. So be pleasant on what all happened and thank God always. :-)
@vipinmenontp (9)
• India
13 Mar 07
There is a sayin that, 4 d cause of a family, one of its member can be sacrificed, and for a society, a family can be sacrificed, and for the nation, a society can be sacrificed..
So there is no cruelity in killin a 2 year old child if he is going make the cruelest thing ever happened in d world.. Den Killing infant hitler is not only the way to prevent Hoolocaust from ever happening.. He could be taken to some other place, where he would grow up to a good human being.. Or he can be taken from der n can bring him to d present time..
@satvik22 (1)
•
13 Mar 07
every event has its own purpose and preventing it from happening by going back in time against the law of nature, i would not do it.
