If you could be sent back in time to kill baby Hitler would you do it?

[coachTanthony]

YES I would

NO couldn't kill anyone

[TheRealPepperPotts]

No, I wouldn't. As with any other dictator in history, there are many factors involved. I would, however, have pulled some strings to get him admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna's School of Architecture...

The reality is that someone else would have filled the shoes that HItler filled. Someone else would have been inserted into his role. Hitler was abused by his father as a child and his mother overcompensated because of it. His little brother died of measles. He had no skills to process any of the things that happened to him.

One of the notable things about Hitler was his lack of education. Higher education produces more nuanced and critical thinking, and he was not allowed the opportunity to pursue it. His father was implacable, he did not have family or community support. He drifted around aimlessly, shut down at every turn, the perfect candidate for extreme ideologies to take root in with no competition.

This is a historical example of why I get concerned about the hatred in our own country toward each other because of political differences. I get concerned about the dehumanizing speech and automatic dismissal of the voices of anyone who doesn't conform exactly to the party line. I am troubled by the absence of reasoned and respectful debate, the refusal to entertain multiple ideas or nuanced perspectives.

We must realize that it is convenient and useful for those in power to feed distrust and hatred of "the other". It assures that nothing can change or improve as long as the people hate each other and refuse to genuinely unite. A bloodbath in the US would serve a strategic purpose in that the foundation of the country could finally be brushed off and a new one emerge. I would implore anyone reading this to think about their personal values and how political divides are eroding them. I know my opinion will accomplish nothing in the big picture, but if even one person decides to question certain assumptions, my effort will not be in vain.

[purplepoppy]

I think it would be pointless because it was largely the mindset of the day that led to WW2. Inward looking nationalism, hatred and distrust of outsiders and those who didn't conform to the status quo. Even if you go back to WW1 it's hard for the modern mind to fathom why millions died bar regurgitate some phrase about treaties and one assassination as if that was justification. The truth was Europe had been at war for centuries and it took the horrors of ww2 to end it. Now the memory has faded and the mindset is returning it's only a matter of time before we get the next Hitler.

[Jersey2]

It actually took WWII, the Americans, the creation nuclear weapons and the founding of Nato to end it.

[on_my_knees]

We do in fact have the next Hitler. He wears a pink skirt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiGDvM14Kwg

[purplepoppy]

Heil Nemo, fabulous leader of the 4th reich

[on_my_knees]

Just let him sing and no one will get hurt.

[jshm2]

No, as baby Hilter did nothing. Even teen Hitler did nothing. Hitler was a product of the time.

Pre-war Germany was the product of overeducation and not enough application. Israel is in the same boat. When you have people with good education and not enough opportunities and jobs to go round then they get into blame game politics. They try find someone to pin the problems on, and refuse to take the problems on that really need looking at.

This paves the way for hard nosed and nasty people to rise to the top. Mainly as they will stoke fires and not help anyone so as not to seem "weak".

[Kaneki05]

If it's a situation I could travel back stop myself if this ends up bring a worser fate sure thing.
Who knows maybe killing him makes some other dictator rise and Germany wins because this one was smart enough to not try invade Russia and Stalin respected him more to be even friends. Which then would be a likely win for them. As that was one major cause of them losing.

[IslaTheWitch]

no... because the history changes would be unpredictable at this point... who knows what worse evil would appear?

[coachTanthony]

You are assuming it would be worse.

[IslaTheWitch]

I'm taking it into consideration, you can't predict who would get a chance to show their true colors...

[coachTanthony]

We do know how many lives we would save though

[IslaTheWitch]

but we don't know how many lives we can lose by the history change

[coachTanthony]

I go off what I do know not what I don't know so I would take the chance

[IslaTheWitch]

your decision

I wouldn't take the risk

[coachTanthony]

It's all good

[mobiusforniner]

No because as a baby he wouldn’t have any care who’s a Jew or not. His mindset was shaped by his experiences and perspectives of his environment at the time.

put a Jewish, white, Asian, African (hell, while we’re at it, a Palestinian) baby in a play room together. They wouldn’t care who’s different just because of appearance or religion

put adults of those babies into a room together, we get a disaster. Why?

[avery58]

That picture scared me, gross (and I mean literally, that swastika "tattoo" is too bold, gross)

But no, I wouldn't. Even though he grew up to be evil, when he was a baby he was innocent. He didn't know anything about hatred nor had genocidal plans at the time, so how could I hurt a baby that doesn't know why I'm hurting him?

[Benitomussoloni]

he wasn't a bad person

[Chazmatazz269]

No. I CAN kill people; just not babies.
I might kidnap him and try to raise him right, in a very different part of the world.

[handsomelad70]

But did we know that little lad would grow up to be a megalomaniacal mass murderer?

[coachTanthony]

No we do now though lol

[handsomelad70]

Hindsight's always 20-20, to humanity's eternal shame in this case.

[coachTanthony]

Yeah so let’s get the little bastard

[handsomelad70]

I doubt a ten-week-old (ten-month-old or even TEN-YEAR-OLD ) Adolf Hitler was preparing the Holocaust.

[coachTanthony]

Why would that even matter? We already know he did so eliminate it before it can happen.

[AviatorTom]

No, but it has nothing to do with whether killing is legitimate or not. Killing Hitler o=would change the timeline, and could actually erase me from the universe. Not worth the risk trying to change history.

[DrPepper12]

It's already happened in one of the multiverses so why would I care about this one?

[leahzrc]

No without him, time travel wouldn't exist. I think if time travel exists, they needed him alive to make it happen

[JesseP1nk]

No i would not. If Hitler did not exit, then soviets would have conquered entire Europe without a problem. If you change the past, it will change the future. And not necessarily in a good way.

[coachTanthony]

LOL.

[JesseP1nk]

asked same question from chatgpt
https://ibb.co/mTffVjM

[coachTanthony]

I'll take the chance and rid the planet of that little bastard.

[northerngal]

Messing with time is a dangerous thing... killing Hitler and the future could be worse...

[Dargil]

Not sure if he'd be followed by someone worse like Himmler.

[KostasKouvalis]

Nope. It wouldn't make a difference anyways since Eichmann orchestrated the Hollucaust

[AngryCarl]

I could, but I wouldn't. Hitler had his part to play in history. Arguably the world became stronger as a result of facing the Nazi threat.

[Anonymous]

most people here wouldn't be alive if that happened

[Kimberly1979]

No but i go back during WWI when Henry Tandy had a chance.

[KrakenAttackin]

Hitler was badly abused by his mother as a child. I would probably kill her.

[exitseven]

I would wring his little neck.

[RarelyEverOn]

No. I would kill the parents instead. They abused hitler and that is why he got megalomaniac.

[At3mis24]

Yes, I will. Please, I'm a darkside knight!

[MemeSupreme]

no bc that's still a baby

[jimmy2]

Yes I would to save million of lives

[Wiredone]

I'm not a murderer

[Cheerguy]

Yes I don't see how people have a problem

[Benitomussoloni]

no i love him

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Nope.