would you do it? you only have 24 hours int he past to make this difference, knowing the monster he would become, would you be able to pull the trigger on him as a child?
2007-06-07 08:35:19 · 24 answers · asked by CHARISMA 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
read 'Making History' by Stephen Fry.
2007-06-08 05:50:31 · answer #1 · answered by Alan A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Even armed with the knowledge of the atrocities Hitler inflicted on innocent people, I could not kill him as a baby.
As a baby, he would also be an innocent and I believe that killing him for something that he had not yet done would be murder.
Killing him as an adult while in the process of creating what would become the Holocaust, is a better option and would hopefully prevent or minimise the death and suffering of millions of people.
However, as time travel is not possible, I guess we can all answer with what we think we would do.
We are not supposed to be able to change history, we are supposed to learn from it.
2007-06-07 16:23:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would indeed have changed the world if Hitler didn't start what he did.
No Israel, for one. The space program in the US would have taken a lot longer to reach the Moon or even just to get into space at all. Millions of people means millions or more of children, which means millions and millions of more mouths to feed (as horrible as that sounds, its true), even more massive spread of communism, most likely a civil war ocuring in Germany based on what happened after World War I, Japan would have still attacked the US but perhaps would have been defeated a lot sooner and possibly without the use of atomic bombs, no cultural revolutions that ocurred after World War II which leads to more dictators around the world (even though the dictators were replaced by dictators)...so no Che Guevera (SP?) and possibly no Castro, among others. The BMW and Volkswagen may have taken longer to reach America, if at all. Albert Einstein's theorys may not have come out or been made prominent. HItler's strength may have been replaced by Mussolini, who may have invaded Europe...which means that Germany would have been the lesser instead of Italy during World War II. Still anti-semitism, but not on the scale we saw during World War II.
That just names a few. But who knows what may happen. It could be something far worse or good. The point is, it happened.
2007-06-07 15:53:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Killing some one is wrong no matter how heinous the crimes they pulled off. Murder is an unpleasant matter, but a result of war. The innocent always suffer. Going back in time to kill Hitler, in my personal opinion, might not change anything. There were a lot more people involved than just one man. So one person going back in time time to knock off Hitler makes that person just the same as the man himself; A MURDERER.
2007-06-07 15:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by Sabra M 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't but to be honest if Hitler hadn't created the world war... The world wouldn't have developed so much.
Because you are changing the time-line.
Like if Hitler didn't try to take over The World then we wouldn't have thought up gas masks or Anderson shelters. And we wouldn't be prepared for what could be for the government next...
2007-06-07 15:45:48 · answer #5 · answered by xCrimsonessence 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no because if he would have been killed at such a young age the whole world would be different then it is today. And someone else would have filled his shoes. Maybe not a German and maybe not against Jews, it could have been a Jewish leader killing the arian race for all we know. But WW2 may not have happened but something equally as bad would have.
2007-06-07 15:45:28 · answer #6 · answered by Dani 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not at all.
I think some of his ideas were right on the ball, its just the way around it that was wrong. The media always make the winners out to be the heros
If Hitler had won, England would not have been in the state it is now. Hitler wanted a united Europe, for white europian people. We would not have the immigration problems if he'd won
The government and media controls what we learn about hitler and WW2 at school, the more books you read about WW2, you get more of an idea of what actually happened.
I know a man who fought for England in WW2 and got shelled by Germans, and even he says that we were on the wrong side.Also, if we had stood by the Germans, Tony Blair wouldn't be such a lap dog to George Bush
ROCK4CLOCK, you are right, very good point made.
2007-06-07 15:44:52 · answer #7 · answered by madusa666 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 so go back to the middle of August 1888 and persuade Alois, his Dad, to use a 'new' invention called a condom.
2007-06-07 15:51:50 · answer #8 · answered by The Shadow 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, That's a innocence child. I will teach him and make a great impact on him in 24 hours so he can lead a positive life.
2007-06-07 15:44:04 · answer #9 · answered by JLC 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The fact is, if he had got into art school as he wanted to none of WWII would have happened. So, if I could go back for 24 hours, I would have persuaded the guy making the descision to accept him. Maybe, who knows what the outcome would have been.....
2007-06-07 15:41:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thing is it would do no good as every time a mad psychopath dies another 1 is born. you cant get rid of all the worlds evil people cause they just keep appearing around the world every few years.
2007-06-07 15:48:37 · answer #11 · answered by PAUL T 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋