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Ethical question

This is an oldie but a goodie:

If you could travel back in time and kill Hitler when he was a baby, would you do it? (And yes, I know how that turned out in that Star Trek episode.)

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SW-User

No, as horrible as what happened, much good did result, Shoah foundation for example, and if it was done, someone worse than him may have gained power, as the problem wasn't just him.

SmartKat · 56-60, F

@SW-User You might be right about that. Terrible political leaders usually don’t exist in a vacuum.

And of course, you would need time travel (and thus, knowledge of what Hitler did) to even consider it. It might not be easy to kill somebody - I doubt if I could do it at all, unless they were actively, right now trying to kill me.

craig7 · 70-79, M

@SW-User That's right.Even if Hitler had died in the Great War,or later,there were others - like Erich Rohm,or Reinhard Heydrich.