Are we morally obligated to kill hitler if time travel were possible?

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Why is it always killing Hitler?

Why not try to prevent the Great War so that there's no place for Hitler to rise to power? Plus you prevent the horrors of the trenches.

Why not kill Gavrilo Princip?

# ¿ May 19, 2015 09:50

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 15:05

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

blackguy32 posted:

You would probably have to go far back enough to wipe out yourself as you know it. You would have to wipe out many of the colonizers considering all of the barbaric poo poo they did too.

Go back and find the first creature to crawl out of the sea, then tread on it.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 10:59

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Thundercracker posted:

Nah, without Hitler the European powers wouldn't have been bled white, and might be still holding onto colonies. Killing Hitler is great for white people, bad for browns.

Some of them still are, they just don't do it in public :ssh:

http://thisisafrica.me/france-loots-former-colonies/

# ¿ May 19, 2015 11:28

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Literally The Worst posted:

What if instead you just smoked mad weed with hitler really makes you think

It would change history so that stoners would gather to blaze in public every year on his birthday.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 12:45

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

LORD OF BUTT posted:

naked fascism

I'm sure that works for someone.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 13:04

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Effectronica posted:

You're morally obligated to kill hitler even if time travel is impossible.

I would, but Hitler got there first.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 14:04

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Ddraig posted:

The thing is people already tried to kill Hitler and failed. What makes you, greasy fat white man of the future, better equipped to do it?

There was only one man with the power, vision, and strength of mind to kill Hitler, and he succeeded.

Makes you think.

# ¿ May 19, 2015 14:14

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

DrSunshine posted:

Whoa, wait, what?

Could you explain this, or, preferably, link to a book that explains it?

I'm guessing it's the idea that time is just another dimension.

It's one that is thermodynamically favorable to only move in one direction through, but all parts of it exist. Like on Earth it is energetically favorable to move down and not up, but everything that's located there (both above you and below you) already exists, objects just move through it.

Now imagine four balls on the edge of a cliff...

# ¿ May 19, 2015 16:21

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

asdf32 posted:

If you wouldn't kill Hitler, arguably one of the worst humans to have existed, what would you change about history given the choice?

Find the original thing that crawled out of the oceans onto land and tread on it. It's the only way to be sure that even worse humans won't appear in his place.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2015 12:44

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 15:05

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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Volcott posted:

If you could go back in time but for reasons the only thing you could do was meet Hitler, shake his hand and get an autograph, would you bother going?

How much do autographs of Hitler sell for?

# ¿ Jun 14, 2015 16:57

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