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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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You've got one chance to go back and snuff Hitler out before his rise to power, effectively stopping world war 2 before it happens
If you do nothing, history plays out as it would have.
If you stop him, only you will know the difference between the two time lines
Before you choose, you should know, that due to the world war 2, many people were moved around the world, people met and fell in love with people they other wise wouldn't have met. So if you stop hilter, there is a very good chance that your loved ones may never exist
Would you still kill hitler? |
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By *cott73Man
over a year ago
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There is a theory that there were plenty more right-wing facists about at that time in Germany, that would have risen to power if Hitler had not been the leader people got behind.
Many of those alternative facists were more inclined to see the power of science, rather than get bogged down with the philosophy of the right. The theory goes, that perhaps we wouldn't have seen genocide on the scale of the holocaust, but Germany would have poured more resources into science, and might have got nuclear weapons before the Allies.
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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An interesting question and one that Ben Elton addresses (albeit about WWI) in his book Time And Time Again (which I recommend reading) in which the main character is sent back in time to prevent the events that lead to the start of WWI and the consequences of doing so are not as you might think.
Unfortunately I don't think just killing Hitler would have made a great deal of difference, as there were numerous other just as fanatical characters (Goebbels, Himmler etc) around who would have been just as bad and unfortunately the state of Germany after WWI was such that I think the events that unfolded are likely to have happened regardless of who was in charge. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hhmm....no I wouldn't do it. I couldn't affect the lives of people living here now because of the past.
I live in the here and now and while yes its terrible the things that went on that wasnt in my time and the responsibility for letting it happen doesn't lay in my hands.
Also how could you stop at just Hitler? There have been so many others in the same position. Would you wipe them all out? Would it just make way for someone else to rise up? |
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By *DontExistWoman
over a year ago
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no i wouldn't kill him.
the feeling of the people at the time was that someone like him would be good for their country. so they voted him into power. if it wasn't hitler voted in then it would've been someone similar.
he wasn't the only fucked up mind at that time. many people were happy to carry out the atrocities they did, under the disguise of service.
i don't believe the results of the stanley milgram test that 'prove' good people will follow bad orders is the correct conclusion. i believe all people are inherently good and evil and sometimes all they need is permission to carry out their evil deeds. i don't believe society votes for anything other than their own needs and we can see this playing out now still.
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By (user no longer on site)
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Ohhh that's a tough one. Avoiding any war is a good thing, however my grandfather was a polish Jew who escaped from Germany with his parents and settled in London, if this hadn't happened he wouldn't have eventually met and married my grandmother and I guess I wouldn't exist, or more importantly for me anyway neither would my children. Yet when I know what atrocities went on then and the horror that thousands if not millions faced during that period from a totally selfish point of view I still don't know if I could make that sacrifice.
And who's to say that if we had the chance to go back and get rid of Hitler, that someone just as bad didn't imerge in his wake? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The second world war also ushered in a rapid acceleration of nuclear tech and medical advancement that may not have been made in so short a time otherwise.
Also it is very possible that another would have stepped neatly in to fill Hitler's shoes too. Germany was a hotbed of unrest prior to the war and nationalism/racism/xenophobia was fuelled by the horrendous recession that was being endured.
The United States would also be very different without the huge territorial claims and loans it made from the second world war. The USA was in a serious depression of its own and the war made it uncountable revenue.
No Soviet Union as we know it either.
Britain may have held on to its tenuous grip of many territories and outright racism may have still been more prevalent too.
Oh, and some people wouldn't have met and fallen in love and be born.
So many ramifications there... |
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By *eesideMan
over a year ago
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"You've got one chance to go back and snuff Hitler out before his rise to power, effectively stopping world war 2 before it happens
If you do nothing, history plays out as it would have.
If you stop him, only you will know the difference between the two time lines
Before you choose, you should know, that due to the world war 2, many people were moved around the world, people met and fell in love with people they other wise wouldn't have met. So if you stop hilter, there is a very good chance that your loved ones may never exist
Would you still kill hitler?"
No as my nan wos a ww2 London evack.
And she met her hubby down hear.
So if i did stop it i my self wood not exzist..
And i don't want to go as I've just found a purpose in life 
If you had arsked this question 2 weeks agow i.may have sed yes... 
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"So your worried people wouldn't of fallen in love. Never mind the millions of people that died."
Erm....yea sure, that's exactly the point I'm trying to make with this completly hypertherocal scenorio |
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"So your worried people wouldn't of fallen in love. Never mind the millions of people that died.
Erm....yea sure, that's exactly the point I'm trying to make with this completly hypertherocal scenorio "
I'd rather people not find love than others going through horrific deaths. |
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By *ieman300Man
over a year ago
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Hitler wasnt the worst nazi. There were many more and worse sick and twisted individuals.
On the other side Stalin was worse and apparently more died as a result of him than hitler or his cronies.
Would i go back and kill all the other idiots if i could be sure i had a 100% cull. Yes.
Would the world be a better place for it. I dont know. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If you stop Hitler, you might save millions of lives, or something worse might happen. Also if I stop ww2, then I might never be born, so how would I kill Hitler? That's a paradox too hard to figure out I'd be like a time remnant |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"People would have fallen in love anyway. Having a war just to enable that is lame.
And we'd still have Glenn Miller, so screw your war."
I didn't say love was invented in world war 2. I was saying that the same people wouldn't have met |
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Bad things happen when people mess with time if any Sc-Fi/fantasy is to be believed.
Probably an alternative universe where WW2 didn't happen, the nazi won and so many other things happen and don't happen |
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As mentioned, it wasn't just Hitler.
My ancestors left Poland before he came to power, the issues were already there, so if not him, someone would have stepped forward to take control.
It breaks my heart to know what happened back then. I have my great grandmothers letters from her family back home written through out the 1930's & 40s.
But I wouldn't change anything, even if I could, as the possible alternative could be far worse |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Killing Hitler more than likely would have just delayed WW2 with Stalin being the obvious dictator to step forward. The cold war may have become a nuclear war with all the supplies and time used in WW2 by Russia focused on pressing the West.
Millions may have been saved by killing Hitler but billions may have been at risk. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You've got one chance to go back and snuff Hitler out before his rise to power, effectively stopping world war 2 before it happens
If you do nothing, history plays out as it would have.
If you stop him, only you will know the difference between the two time lines
Before you choose, you should know, that due to the world war 2, many people were moved around the world, people met and fell in love with people they other wise wouldn't have met. So if you stop hilter, there is a very good chance that your loved ones may never exist
Would you still kill hitler?"
Would you stop World War Three ?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You've got one chance to go back and snuff Hitler out before his rise to power, effectively stopping world war 2 before it happens
If you do nothing, history plays out as it would have.
If you stop him, only you will know the difference between the two time lines
Before you choose, you should know, that due to the world war 2, many people were moved around the world, people met and fell in love with people they other wise wouldn't have met. So if you stop hilter, there is a very good chance that your loved ones may never exist
Would you still kill hitler?
Would you stop World War Three ? "
None of us will ever stop human beings blowing crap out of each other.
Sorry to be cynical but it's the scale and methods we do it that alter. Wars are fought asymetricaly with hidden agendas now,and wars make money.
It's nothing new. |
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