Would you? Even if you know that inevitably there are a lot of people who exist as a result of their parents meeting after fleeing Germany. Could it be considered murder if you knowingly snuff of unborn people out of existence........but on the other hand you'd save a lot of life's too.
2007-09-14 10:52:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I used to have a list of people I would kill if I ever got ahold of a time machine. But with a few more years of experience I realized that even those key rotten people that seem to be a source of greater evil have good influence too. Like Plato for example. Communism and Nazism would never have existed without Plato. But then again, neither would western civilization, so it kinda balances out. Plato taught Aristotle, who taught Alexander the Great, who ended the Persian threat forever and allowed Greco-Roman civilization to come into existence. So if I wasted Plato maybe Alexander would've ended up a wastrel satrap of the Persian Empire and instead of Greco-Roman philosophy we'd have all that eastern accept your fate crap as the basis for 'western' civilization. While Zoroastrianism is far superior to paganism it still has too much of the 'don't struggle' attitude that so irritates me about eastern philosophy. I'll darn well struggle till the very last breath, thank you very much.
So after thinking it all the way through my list ended up empty. You can work your way back to the wellsprings of evil men and find that they're also the wellsprings of good men. So who do you kill? The source or the recepticle? If only the recepticle then the idea soldiers on and finds a new champion. If the source then the positive side vanishes too.
It's sticky. Thank heaven time travel is impossible.
2007-09-14 12:27:45 · answer #1 · answered by thelairdjim 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I would't. He was just fulfilling his mission. He was just being an agent of change, by giving the universe an idea of "bad".
Who says souls must only strive to give the universe an idea of "good"?
If it wasn't for him, the world will not have it's present idea of "good". The world now has its present idea of "good" by basing it to the world's present idea of "bad". And someone else, if not Hitler, would have to emerge to fulfill the mission that was needed to be done.
Haven't you ever wondered why during that time that Hitler was delivering his schemes, many people is agreeing to him? It is because those many people have no idea of what is "bad" yet. They only knew it when they finally saw it.
Present generation, then, must, in a way, thank Hitler.
Just be glad that his time is now over. Another one is on his way.
The universe keeps redefining it's boundaries.
2007-09-14 11:25:34 · answer #2 · answered by medea 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What would that create in the void you left? What if something had to happen, and so someone else just steps in that place.
What if Hitler came in to show us the Extreme Version of what we have been doing for centruries...killing each other. He gifted us with the ultimate killing, why not ...we are killing anyway? Did it horrify you enough to stop killing someone? Not you?
There is Divine Order, and anger and rash behaviour just creates more ugly lessons for humanity.
So NO, is my answer to your question.
2007-09-14 16:36:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm...good question. I'd have to say, no, I would not kill him. If Hitler never killed all those Jewish people, I bet you someone else would do something along the same lines instead. We only begun preventing possible events like that after Hitler. That experience, though horrible, strengthened our future.
2007-09-14 11:03:33 · answer #4 · answered by Chrissy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldnt. everything happens for a reason. If WW2 never happened, the earth would probably be in shambles. One thing leads to another, which keeps the chain running smoothly. Its like an equation. Change on number, and the whole thing changes.
2007-09-20 09:58:08 · answer #5 · answered by Patrick 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this question has be pondered on a zillion times....
I live in Romania. i would have liked to kill Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. That way communism would have never been thought of, romania would have never known communism and we wouldnt still be under this pseudo-democratic rule of ex-communists. We would still be a monarchy, the way we were before communism destroyed all of it and screwed this country over.
2007-09-19 14:42:28 · answer #6 · answered by Sasha 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I would do it. I think I saw an episode of the twilight zone that they killed baby hitler. Only bad thing was that someone else stepped up and was just as bad...
2007-09-14 11:00:29 · answer #7 · answered by kaytee3212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would accept him to art school instead of rejecting him and sending him over the edge. Actually, the present would be so unrecognizable that I would change nothing.
2007-09-17 17:43:54 · answer #8 · answered by heismanu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO-even killing a small bug will alter the future. I may cease to exist.
2007-09-21 07:33:56 · answer #9 · answered by Fred F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well.....I know it is wrong and we can't go back in time but yes I would. Because it would have saved alot of innocent peoples lives.
2007-09-14 11:02:31 · answer #10 · answered by *Chelbi* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋