if you could go back in time...

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...would it be ok to kill the baby hitler?

No!

But it would be OK to kidnap him and bring him up a nice jewish boy.

It wouldn't change the history of your own world you come from - the act of killing little Hitler would create another dimension in which Hitler died as a child but your own world would remain as it was. It's just as if a tree got a new branch that grew out of a trunk - a new world, this time without Hitler. Btw, however I realize that I'll be accused of cruelty and lack of heart, don't forget that thanks to wars a new technology is developed - not used only in a war industry but after a war it comes into general use. What doesn't mean I'm a supporter of any wars.

Btw, on youtube you can find the episode of The Twilight Zone, "Cradle of Darkness" that says about a woman who decided to save the world from the nightmares of the Second World War in a way described by you. The result was... unexpected

I saw a TV a program in which one "time travel" theorist seemed to think we can only go back as for as when the first time machine is invented. And then only information could be sent.

I'd go back to the December of 2006 and stay on the Weight Watchers programme.

Lol!

Yeah, I'd go back and not throw away my childhood bicycle.

The South Beach Diet worked for me!

I think as tempting as it would be to go back in time & fix things (or people ), we still need to learn & grow from our mistakes.

If you went back in time and killed Hitler then you could end up with an even worse occurance than WW2. Eugenics was growing in popularity in many western countries including UK, US, Canada, Switzerland, people with even mild disabilities were being obliged to be sterilised. The extremism of the holocaust put paid to any such ideas continuing to be pursued by governments and gave the world a wake up call. If the ideas had been allowed to grow more subtly then none of us may be here now.

Difficult one indeed.
We seem not to have learnt from the mistakes of the past, though... if one considers anything to be a mistake, of course.

I voted yes, I would go back in time to when I was born, except somehow just know of certian mistakes i would make in the future, live my full life, enjoy every moment in childhood, and do the right things then. The most important thing would be to go back and just enjoy my early life, i think about it constantly.

hmm, the killing hitler paradox would be interesting, i would assume without WW2 i would not be here, as my grandfathers would have never met my grandmothers, that would not be good, for me anyways. without ww2 we would not have things such as nuclear power and jets, also, and this is true, a forget his name, but this man was a rocket scientist for the nazi's during the war, he built the first ballistic missle, known as the v2. People from britan were the unfortunate victums of this horrible weapon, very complex, this man used slave labor to build these weapons, and after the war ended, and the US and the Soviets were trying to find these scientists to help them obtain nazi technology (the nazi's had the best technology at that time) and to make a long story short these guys were responsible for horrible atrocities, did they pay for their crimes? no, instead they were taken in by these nations, and put to work, u can thank a nazi for getting us to the moon, he built the v2 and escaped sentancing because the US needed rocket technology, b4 the moon, their needed to be a way to hit the soviets with our new atom bomb.

sorry for the long story that kinda went off topic, i like ww2

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heh, thankx, i cant feel too bad for my country during that war, we inflicted more death and distruction then we suffered for the most part, but other nations like yours and england, and france and the soviet union really saw many die and much distructiuon, this really, if u think about it lasted until the fall of communism, u guys had it very difficult, very tough ppl!!

I read about an interesting battle that occured, their was a polish underground (many dont know this, but 2 polish scientists cracked the enigma code using math) poland, tho dominated in about a mounth, actually sowed the seeds of the nazi distruction long b4 their downfall, and unfortunatly had the soviets pulled their heads outa their asses when they reached your border, and helped the polish underground fight, perhapse the war coulda ended sooner, stupid stalen!

heh, ok... ill stop talking about this subject now, afterall this is not a ww2 thread tho we should have 1, hehe.

Oh no I've gone crosseyed. I would leave history to take it's bow. I don't want to have a situation like Back to the Future!

A Zen Master might say, "It wouldn't be okay, but it wouldn't be not okay either. Morality is subjective." A Christian might disagree. Morality requires a frame of referance.

Er...no.

Paradoxes f**k up the concept of time.

If Doctor Who was real, he's punched more holes in the space time continium than James Caan got shot at the tollbooth in The Godfather.

NO!

Change the past, and you will screw up the future!