Ethical paradox: Would You Kill Baby Hitler?

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11 Feb 2021, 3:24 pm

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Hitler was a product of his environment. If he was growing up today it would be very unlikely he would be anything dangerous.

So no killing babies :D


No - H*tler and other fascists in history was a neurotic physcopath (science says so) and just a d*ck - H*tler was born with the genetic and brain abnormalities that'd lead him to do them things but that shouldn't have given him a free pass to do the things did. He could have rather - became a hippy practitioner or turned to religion to help himself - the world is rich in light, beauty and hope - for everyone.

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But weather to kill babies - No - If I had a time machine and the confidence - I'd go to H*tler's house and become his routine shaman - cure him from his demons through natures medicines and the new future music, teach H*tler meditation - show that even behind any evil man - there is a pure good heart and soul. We are all human after all - monkey's were never neurotic physcopath - everyone, even f*cked up people like dat H*tler, Putin and the rest of fascist web chains pig tw*ts in the present that seems just never stop or never dies off through time unfortunately - had/have a pure heart and soul behind the evil. They just need turn to Gods lights.



'Half' the population of the world could qualify as having sociopathic tendencies, given the appropriate situation.
Human psychology is an abomination after all.
"Blame the evolutionary process."

If it wasn't Hitler, given the same anarchistic environment, there would have been another a$$hole taking his place, in all probability.

Would you kill that one also?



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11 Feb 2021, 3:30 pm

I tend to agree, It comes down to the nature Vs nurture debate. If he was born to progressive leftist parents I am sure would be a young Greta Thunberg :lol:



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11 Feb 2021, 3:30 pm

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Hitler was seen as being a "limited" artist-----sort of like a singer who might be good, but has a limited vocal range.

He was seen, basically, as one who lacked creativity.


He just wasn't good *enough* in a competitive environment.
Blame Vienna, for refusing his admission, for the consequences.



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11 Feb 2021, 4:06 pm

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Let's say you were sent back in time to his bedroom in Austria when Hitler was still a baby, would you kill baby Hitler as an attempt to prevent the WWII and Holocaust from happening?


You just find yourself in front of the baby him, with a gun in your hand, shoot or not shoot?

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No. As terrible as that sounds, I would not wish to alter history so fundamentally.


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11 Feb 2021, 4:09 pm

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No. As terrible as that sounds, I would not wish to alter history so fundamentally.


The sad irony is that it probably wouldn't alter much. Events create leaders much more than leaders create events. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else.


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11 Feb 2021, 8:15 pm

cyberdad wrote:
Hitler was a product of his environment. If he was growing up today it would be very unlikely he would be anything dangerous.

So no killing babies :D


Nonsense. Makes no sense to assume that a person of Hitler's personality couldnt appear today.

Sociopathic and psychopathic individuals appear in every generation. Changes in child rearing doesnt change that fact. And not everyone in Hitler's generation was Hitler.

Further- there is some truth to (what you seemed to be) saying that the modern world is more vigilant and wary of the rise of Hitler types than it was in Hitler's time. But thats because we now have Hitler as an example to watch out for. If you had plugged the baby Hitler with a 9mm in his cradle...then ...MAYBE we wouldnt have had the Third Reich, but we wouldnt have Hitler as an example to watch out for today either. That part of what you're saying is a paradox.



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11 Feb 2021, 8:25 pm

I don't know. I have read a book on Hitler's life story.
Hitler while being the most famous nazi, did appear to have been groomed to become the leader by Dietrich Eckart.
Apparently it was from Eckart that Hitler learnt a great deal about propaganda, politics and gained a taste for antisemitism.

Before meeting Eckart, Hitler didn't have a issue with the Jewish people.



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11 Feb 2021, 10:19 pm

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No. As terrible as that sounds, I would not wish to alter history so fundamentally.


The sad irony is that it probably wouldn't alter much. Events create leaders much more than leaders create events. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else.


I wish I had said that. :mrgreen:

Yep, there is never a shortage of A-holes in the world.



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11 Feb 2021, 10:27 pm

madbutnotmad wrote:
I don't know. I have read a book on Hitler's life story.
Hitler while being the most famous nazi, did appear to have been groomed to become the leader by Dietrich Eckart.
Apparently it was from Eckart that Hitler learnt a great deal about propaganda, politics and gained a taste for antisemitism.

Before meeting Eckart, Hitler didn't have a issue with the Jewish people.


Are you saying the story about Adolf Schicklgruber having Jewish ancestry, and the resentment over the way his grandmother was treated, was simply propaganda?

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One of the most frequently asked questions about the Holocaust and the Nazi party is whether Adolf Hitler was Jewish or had Jewish ancestors.

Though the idea may seem preposterous to some, the question seems to stem from the remote possibility that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish. Hitler's father, Alois, was registered as an illegitimate child with no father when born in 1837 and to this day Hitler's paternal grandfather is unknown. Alois’ mother, Maria Schicklgruber, is known to have worked in the home of a wealthy Jew, so there is some chance, however small, that a son in that household got Hitler's grandmother pregnant.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/was-hitler-jewish



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11 Feb 2021, 10:29 pm

I'd travel back 12 months sooner to give his parents some condoms wrapped in a pea green box.


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11 Feb 2021, 10:31 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Hitler was a product of his environment. If he was growing up today it would be very unlikely he would be anything dangerous.

So no killing babies :D


Nonsense. Makes no sense to assume that a person of Hitler's personality couldnt appear today.

Sociopathic and psychopathic individuals appear in every generation. Changes in child rearing doesnt change that fact. And not everyone in Hitler's generation was Hitler.


Based on my research:
Psychopaths are born.
Sociopaths are made.

The environment/life-experience is responsible for making *sociopaths*



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11 Feb 2021, 10:37 pm

NaturalEntity wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Let's say you were sent back in time to his bedroom in Austria when Hitler was still a baby, would you kill baby Hitler as an attempt to prevent the WWII and Holocaust from happening?


You just find yourself in front of the baby him, with a gun in your hand, shoot or not shoot?

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No. As terrible as that sounds, I would not wish to alter history so fundamentally.


I have no qualms about changing history/the-timeline.
I agree with Janeway.

Besides, all that is done is to create another dimension with a different history.
People are so precious for no good reason, all so often.



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12 Feb 2021, 2:14 am

naturalplastic wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Hitler was a product of his environment. If he was growing up today it would be very unlikely he would be anything dangerous.

So no killing babies :D


Nonsense. Makes no sense to assume that a person of Hitler's personality couldnt appear today.

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Sorry I think I have misinterpreted the meaning of this thread - I thought it was if Hitler was hypothetically reborn now.
A hypothetical situation could be like the "Boys from Brazil" movie where Hitler survived the war and his blood/tissue was collected and cloned to make new baby Hitlers.



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12 Feb 2021, 8:17 am

Pepe wrote:
nadroJ wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Hitler was a product of his environment. If he was growing up today it would be very unlikely he would be anything dangerous.

So no killing babies :D


No - H*tler and other fascists in history was a neurotic physcopath (science says so) and just a d*ck - H*tler was born with the genetic and brain abnormalities that'd lead him to do them things but that shouldn't have given him a free pass to do the things did. He could have rather - became a hippy practitioner or turned to religion to help himself - the world is rich in light, beauty and hope - for everyone.

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But weather to kill babies - No - If I had a time machine and the confidence - I'd go to H*tler's house and become his routine shaman - cure him from his demons through natures medicines and the new future music, teach H*tler meditation - show that even behind any evil man - there is a pure good heart and soul. We are all human after all - monkey's were never neurotic physcopath - everyone, even f*cked up people like dat H*tler, Putin and the rest of fascist web chains pig tw*ts in the present that seems just never stop or never dies off through time unfortunately - had/have a pure heart and soul behind the evil. They just need turn to Gods lights.



'Half' the population of the world could qualify as having sociopathic tendencies, given the appropriate situation.
Human psychology is an abomination after all.
"Blame the evolutionary process."

If it wasn't Hitler, given the same anarchistic environment, there would have been another a$$hole taking his place, in all probability.

Would you kill that one also?


Through God's universal creation - the maintenance of cosmic harmony, which is required for the preservation of creation and man kind, which can be unkind, murder would detract God’s cosmic harmony - (God being the universal creator and consciousness, whom existed even before and after the very infinite amount of alternate universe's before this one) - in that it damages an aspect of justice that is related to the very heart of human beings: social peace and harmony and love. Social morality is achieved through protection of the weak, not murder, murder is the ultimate act of oppression of the weak, constitutes in the disruption of God’s cosmic harmony.

No I would not kill 'H*tler replica', but then again, The question is so endlessly difficult to answer, because h*tler and his ants killed a lot of people - How else do I make clear that murder is wrong in so many ways, without "blaming the evolutionary process". Murder against ones own species is against the very laws of the universe, God and mother earths peaceful tranquillity she gifted mankind and animals for us, through infinite possibilities of existence. :x


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12 Feb 2021, 11:48 am

Mikah wrote:
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No. As terrible as that sounds, I would not wish to alter history so fundamentally.


The sad irony is that it probably wouldn't alter much. Events create leaders much more than leaders create events. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else.

I know, and that's sad. Even if it didn't change time much, I would leave him be. We know he lost eventually. What if a leader in an alternate timeline had won?


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12 Feb 2021, 1:30 pm

NaturalEntity wrote:
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No. As terrible as that sounds, I would not wish to alter history so fundamentally.


The sad irony is that it probably wouldn't alter much. Events create leaders much more than leaders create events. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else.

I know, and that's sad. Even if it didn't change time much, I would leave him be. We know he lost eventually. What if a leader in an alternate timeline had won?


His replacement being more competent is indeed a possibility.


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