If you were teleported back in time to Adolf Hitler for 5 minutes...?

Question

before being teleported back, Would you kill him? Oh by the way, you arrive when he is 5 years old. Would you kill him?

People keep in mind you have only 5 minutes, then you are teleported out. One chance. You can't move in with him and make him be a nice person.

Answer 1

Yes, I would have no problem in killing him. His age would not matter knowing the monster that he would grow into. As far as the butterfly effect, really, who cares. The greater good acomplished by this one act would outweigh any unforseen consequences.

Answer 2

green_mek... has given you the best possible answer. By killing him at five, you would have no idea what dominoes would fall as a result. Along the same lines...

If you could go back to that fateful day in Dallas, walk into the book depository and disarm Oswald, would you do it? Kennedy was going to bring the soldiers back from Vietnam. There would have been no war. For that matter, what about George W.? How many thousands of lives would have been saved had he not won office?

This is a fools game. Best to live your life in the now and do the best you can with it.

Answer 3

If it would stop the war and that was the only variable to consider - yes. However it might set into play other occurances where another dictator might have sprung up, but with German's nuclear power program well underway for example.

Answer 4

Probably not, because I have no idea what the butterfly effect would do. There'd be a good chance I'd arrive back to no family, money or possessions, in a completely changed world.

Answer 5

you want to kill but if you do the is no man on the moon the is no nukelear power and lots of outher things but you can not kill him it will change history infact if you did kill the time you left will not be your time you left and you might not be able to get back to your time the time machean that got you there my never be invented so you might get stuck there so you had better not kill him

Answer 6

I would kill him in a heartbeat, if I were certain he could not be changed. The atrocities that were commissioned by him far outweigh any argument in allowing a five-year old child, destined for such evil, to live.

EDIT: And if I couldn't get away with it? Then so be it.

Answer 7

That is not a bad question, considering how many died at his hands, but you should never change the time line, because something else, maybe even worse might happen. So i would let sleeping dogs lay, and save myself from a moral dilemma.

Answer 8

I would be too afraid of what other horrible things would come about if we did not ever have to deal with Hitler. Thinking strictly of what he did, I would off him, but thinking of what could happen as a result of screwing with history, especially something with as huge an impact as what Hitler did, I would have to leave that to the cosmos.

Answer 9

If he were age 5 I would tell him all about Jesus and how much Jesus loves him and that Jesus was a Jew and that the founderes of all of Christianity were Jewish and show him some scriptures and tell him that no matter what small minded and unloging people surround him in his life to tell him differently this is Truth and to never depart from it.

Then I would check in on his parent and tell them that if they ever abuse this child or led him astray they would be condemned to hellfire forever.

Answer 10

Nope. Who knows in the future the Jews may rise up and slaughter all none jews and it would be all my fault because I killed the guy that was gonna keep them in check.