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.

[daintyme]

this may sound werid, but if given the chance, i would not kill baby hitler. if he was killed, the world would not be able to experience the horrors and distinguish what is wrong and what is right. and if he was disposed, that would call for an equally hated and evil person or someone that is even more extreme! but perhaps we could have altered some circumstances...

[Trolling]

this may sound werid, but if given the chance, i would not kill baby hitler. if he was killed, the world would not be able to experience the horrors and distinguish what is wrong and what is right. and if he was disposed, that would call for an equally hated and evil person or someone that is even more extreme! but perhaps we could have altered some circumstances...

I agree... And like someone said from page 1 I think itll alter the U.S cause we were in a depressive state at that time... It is just better not to meddle with time... Homer simpson taught us that when he went back with hes radioactive toaster...

[XoJennaoX]

this may sound werid, but if given the chance, i would not kill baby hitler. if he was killed, the world would not be able to experience the horrors and distinguish what is wrong and what is right. and if he was disposed, that would call for an equally hated and evil person or someone that is even more extreme! but perhaps we could have altered some circumstances...

So becasue of the holocaust we now can distinguish right from wrong? i don't think so. Hopefully we already knew what was right from wrong, and if you havn't noticed the world does not learn from its mistakes very well.

We already can tell who would come to power in Germany if Hitler was never born by looking at his predecessors....and i don't see a worse outcome then under Hitler's reign, you can't get much worse than that. Remeber his invention was the concentration and death camps after all, he is the mastermind behind the holocaust, other political nazis were simply his aids.

I agree... And like someone said from page 1 I think itll alter the U.S cause we were in a depressive state at that time... It is just better not to meddle with time... Homer simpson taught us that when he went back with hes radioactive toaster...

wow...i guess i'm shocked to see so many people would not kill him. Again this "meddling with time" bit comes up again. Then why care about our future if it is just going to happen the way it is suppose to anyway? if thats how you look at the holocaust, then going to war in Iraq was our fate, and everything in history was fated.

Maybe my defense is steaming from a discussion i had with two survivors of the holocaust that live near me. If i had the chance to kill Hitler i would, even if it is solely for the purpose this couple would no longer have to suffer everyday and feel guilty that they made it out alive, then i would just for them. But i know there are millions that had to suffer and are still suffering, not just two.