So, you hurled back in time by an unknown force, and find the baby Adolf Hitler in his crib. Should you kill him?
If you do, you will prevent the murder of 6 million Jews and untold millions of others, prvent WW II, and probably prevent the Cold War which followed.
..but...
Adolf, at this point, is a innocent babe. He has commited no crime yet.
What should you do?
WARNING: I already know the answer. Be careful, and think before you reply.
2007-10-14 14:37:18 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why would any sane person kill a baby?
What a silly question.
Love and blessings Don
2007-10-14 14:40:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
But that would be like, *GASP* abortion.
Hypotheticals like this have a flaw. If you change history you can have no idea of the consequeces. You get into the situation of the man who killed his parents before he was born.
Now, whatever you do, knowing a future history or not, if you kill him you are just killing a baby. Maybe that makes a worse replacement take his place and WWII is even worse in that case.
There is also the theosophical point that you would be messing with God's plan.You come up against the idea that God has a purpose for everybody he created, including Baby Adolf.
If you believe God actually has a plan.
Anyhow, whether you think you have an answer or not it is a nonsense question.
Now what if you were sent back as a Rabbi and Hitler was a youth struggling with poverty and the fact that his mother, a devout Catholic was dying of cancer.
Would you and your synagogue try to help him by helping take care of his dying mother. Helping with the finances, maybe offering some employment.
Maybe even, Lord help us, sponsoring his career as an artist.
(I have seen copies and photos of his paintings and they were actually not bad at all)
Would an artistically recognised Adolf, with ties to the Jewish community have been able to avoid the holocaust, or would he have just ended up in Auschwitz along with so many others.
I even doubt if Hitler existing or not would have changed things that much. I know we all like the idea of Hitler, a superhuman evil genius. That is an effect of the propaganda machine. Hitler as a not very original politician caught up in the events that made the war happen might be a far better description. The economics of the times mattered far more than Adolf's speeches in forcing the war, and the holocaust, to happen.
2007-10-14 21:49:56 · answer #2 · answered by Y!A-FOOL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the balance of time if one were to prevent A. Hitler from rise to power there would only be another and by stopping it the events that follow could only possibly be worse? One should not attempt to change the past in any way!
2007-10-14 21:42:34 · answer #3 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is not my place to seek the vengeance that is the lords.that being said ,stalin was a far worse despot than hitler if he had have controlled central europe things may have turned out worse.further at that time the u.s. would have been hard pressed to defeat the red army(despite what patton may have thought) in short all things must pass .lets concern ourselves with the things that we can affect such as the present and the near future.
2007-10-15 00:10:28 · answer #4 · answered by joe c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is that even though this is a "what if" question, I would refuse to answer base on the fact that this scenario would never ever happen.
Now, contradicting myself, saying I DID go back, no, I wouldn't touch him. One reason is because, in my thinking, one cannot even, providing one can go back in time, interact with anything. There are too many issues when discussing time.
But, regardless, this would never happen so any logical deduction you'd get from anyone's answers would be void.
2007-10-14 21:41:19 · answer #5 · answered by Corvus 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would try to become a part of his life like a nanny or baby sitter or some other influential role and I'd tell him about Jesus and Getting saved and would give him the Gospel and teach in the truth. I would try to lead him to Christ. I would pray for God to remove any obstacles to his getting saved. I would pray for God to soften his heart and heal any hurt. With God, all things are possible.
2007-10-14 21:49:58 · answer #6 · answered by tas211 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you don't kill him.
btw, there were a total of 12 million kiled by Hitler in the camps. Six million were Christians, and six million were jews.
It is estimated that Stalin killed 26 million of his people....most of them Urkranian Catholics/Orthodox.....and Mao Tse Tung killed even more of his own people.
It has been estimated that among the 3 of them, over 100 million of non-combatants were killed by them.
2007-10-14 21:49:49 · answer #7 · answered by The Cub 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You can't fathom the possible change in history. What would happen to the Industrial revolution is the US. Woman's rights the Civil Rights movements? These were just a few major events that were predicated on WWII
2007-10-14 21:44:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Leave him alone. Who is it your place to judge the actions of others? Besides, if you did anything, the consequences could be far worse. Like the Soviet Union being the world power, and not America.
2007-10-14 21:56:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shouldn't a person raise him up and teach him the way that would be pleasing to God?
Besides that, You can't travel in time and even if you could how would you know it was Adolph anyways?
2007-10-14 21:43:51 · answer #10 · answered by wrench'n away 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋