Hitler started as an art student with a passion for it, but, was expelled. Could you have faith in yourself to make a difference at a turning point in his life, or...
2007-06-13 13:41:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I would do exactly what his art teacher did, and look like him or her too somehow. I don't want to screw with history. People would still die somehow. I don't want to ruin all the lives that have already come into existence.
2007-06-13 13:47:06 · answer #1 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Looking at this art on: http://www.snyderstreasures.net/pages/hartworks.htm#a15, which today is the first time I have looked at his art pieces, if I do recall, it has been many years since I finished high school. I would have given him a "A", his pictures show grace, peace and harmony. Could the expulsion from his passion and career in art have pushed Hitler into the mindset of hate and despise which led to the catastrophe of his reign?
2007-06-13 22:21:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I went back in time I would have no reason to believe that this meek little art student from Austria would become the monster that he was.
If I could bring my knowledge of history back with me then I would still hesitate killing him. If I can change history by killing him then anything is open to revision and his unprobable and opportunistic rise to power might not have happened anyway.
I wouldn't give him an 'A' unless he earned it. I'm a teacher after all.
2007-06-13 22:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such hypothetical questions serve no purpose. Even if he were given an A and admitted to art school what is to ensure he wouldn't at any stage, have turned into a monster. If it was in his make-up to become evil anything could have sparked it anytime. Not all rejected artists become so dejected that they take it out on innocents. A true artist, I feel, is more sensitive, caring and feeling individual and would continue with his work --not for name or fame-- but for fulfilling his passion. So by that logic I would surmise he was no artist and his art teacher was right in rejecting him and killing him at that stage was unwarranted.........so...
2007-06-15 01:33:16 · answer #4 · answered by P'quaint! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Time paradoxes are based on an assumption that things would be better if. They also could be worse.
Killing Hitler off could also have meant that some of his more brutal cohorts could have come to power and killed more than 6 million. Mengele and a vareity of prominent German doctors could have been the centre of the power and far more hideous science could have been conducted on live individuals.
2007-06-13 21:56:52 · answer #5 · answered by guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Hitler had not been expelled it would have changed his entire life, so I blame his art teacher for WW2 ;-).....Hitler's problem is that he was born to be a megalomaniac. Same problem we have with most humans that chose to be leaders.
2007-06-13 21:01:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would give him a B maybe a C, but tell him what he needs to know, to get better. I'll try to help him as much as I can, so he can turn into a great artist, he was very talented, he could have been an amazing artist, instead of being an excellent but flawed politician.
2007-06-14 22:05:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler had issues which is why he was probably good in art. Most of the most creative people had "issues". There would have been nothing no one could have done to change Hitler's out come..... He lived in a world of his own.....
2007-06-13 20:51:36 · answer #8 · answered by just me 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would but you'll changed the past greatly and I would not know what would happen. Say for instance my ancestors was in put in slavery over 400 hundred years ago, now if I changed that I wouldn't be here right here. I mean I hate what happen to them but what happen has and we just have to move on.
2007-06-13 20:48:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At that point, nobody knew what he would do. There was no reason to kill him. Anyone who killed him at that point would have been convicted of unprovoked, intentional murder.
Since we cannot see the future, we cannot hold anyone accountable for what they might do, only what they have already done.
2007-06-13 22:27:58 · answer #10 · answered by baby_savvy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋