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I Am Tired of America

I just read a poll. They asked people if they could travel back in time, whether they would kill Hitler as a child or not, knowing what he did as an adult. Most Spaniards answered they would not. Most Americans answered they would.
I am proud of Spain for this answer. Again I saw American oversimplicity, believing that this killing would have solved all the trouble in the world. Hitler was evil, but not the absolute evil. If he had been killed, another one worse than him could have taken his place. Things are not that simple, we must study which are the conditions that make possible that Hitlers are elected and followed by the mob, and try not to repeat them again.

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Muldoon · 56-60, M

@Cierzo your post is excellent. I'm American and have never heard this question. Immediately when I read Hitler in your post I thought of the persecuted Jews. But then, I believe the inventions & atrocities of history would happen anyway as part of normal human evolution. For instance, when something is invented simultaneously in China & Europe at the same time without each inventor knowing what the other was doing it shows to me that certain conditions exist worldwide that make inventions necessary. "Necessity is the mother of invention."
I agree if it wasn't Hitler it could have been someone else or that it could have been worse. Thx for opening my mind today to see something I have never seen.