Thou shall not kill....circumstantial or not?, Is is justified to kill baby Hitler? Options

[XoJennaoX]

As a young person you travel back in time to pre-World War II Germany, intending to kill the infant Adolf Hitler in order to prevent the horrors of the Holocaust. Disguising yourself as a housekeeper, you infiltrate the Hitler household, where you experience the environment that possibly shaped Hitler's warped thinking - his abusive, racist father and his weak, ineffective mother.

But killing a baby is much more difficult than you'd imagined, and though you try several times to commit the act, you find yourself either unable or prevented from doing it. Finally, you steal the infant out of his crib and though you are followed by the child's nanny, manage to leap from a bridge, drowning both yourself and the baby Hitler.

But history may not be changed! The maid spies a mentally ill gypsy woman sitting with her baby, and buys the child, passing him off to the unwitting Hitler parents as their own baby.

What do you think? Was Hitler born evil (was it in his innate nature to be who he was) or was it other factors? What do you do? Would you kill baby Hitler, or would you not? Would you sacrifice yourself? If you do kill him, you must take the guilty plea of having committed murder on an innocent life. Taking note that Hitler (as an infant) is completely innocent and you yourself have to kill him. It is harder than it sounds.

[*Krisaweanie*]

Was Hitler born evil (was it in his innate nature to be who he was) or was it other factors?

no i dont think that Hitler was born evil... in my opinion i dont think anyone is... it's just the enviroment they grew up in...

though you cant change history. the answer is yes i would kill hitler. i might've killed one person but i prevented the muder of millions of innocent people.

[XoJennaoX]

though you cant change history. the answer is yes i would kill hitler. i might've killed one person but i prevented the muder of millions of innocent people.

Exactly why i would too...you can't change everything bad in the world but how could you not try and save the millions that were tortured and killed and not to mention the millions of sufferers and the effects that his legacy still have on millions today. If some people had just one day in a concentration camp they might change their mind about killing him.

no i dont think that Hitler was born evil... in my opinion i dont think anyone is... it's just the enviroment they grew up in

Hmm.....If i grew up in the same exact environment as Hitler i strongly doubt i would become just like him....i might be racist if i grew up in his environment, but i do not have the ability to persuade, rule, and force as hitler did.. and those are innate qualities that cannot be taught to me. So are you saying that anyone can become hitler as long as they grow up in the same environment? i think it's more than that. There are only a select few of those people in this world that have that ability, so why not try and limit them.

[Spirited Away]

So are you saying that anyone can become hitler as long as they grow up in the same environment?

We'll never know, will we?

Quite a number of behavorial psychologists, such as BF Skinner and John B Watson, believed the oposite. In fact, they believe that they could train babies to become lawyers, doctors... etc. Of course, to balance things out there are also well-learned individuals who'll agree with you that Hitler's... evil was innate rather than learned.

No, I'm not arguing anything, I'm only pointing out that we cannot give your question a definite answer, until the nature vs nurture controversy reaches a conclusion.