If you could travel back in time with present day knowledge, would you kill Adolf Hitler?
by 
MrJosh
ANSWERS: 17
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I'd go a little further back in time and talk to his mama! ;-)
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Yeah, he's a bastard.
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Yes John, I would kill the son of a #@^#@!
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Who wouldn't? Some people say they don't believe in killing but I couldn't let him kill all those people again
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Well... Speaking from present day knowledge. We have no idea what might have happened if someone did kill adolf Hitler. Maybe communism may have spread, maybe the Russians would have taken over the world instead. So my answer is, I have no idea. But I would have liked the British to retain its empire.
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yeah, i think certain people in history like Stalin, Hitler, Hussein etc deserve no mercy. The world would be better for it!
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Yeah. Some opportunities are just too good to pass up.
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Time travelling is very complicated... maybe, if Hitler would have been killed before he died in 1945, someone else would have taken his place, maybe someone more dangerous who could have won the 2nd World War... Whatever it is: DON'T PLAY WITH THE TIME!
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Even if I could travel back in time with all the present day gadgets and weaponry I would not be able to kill Adolf Hitler. He must die the mysterious death that he died. By traveling back in time course of history cannot be changed or altered or tampered with.
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the quick answer is 'yes' which would be his just fruuits as they say. that being said, i would handcuff him and make him watch every change to the positive side so to drive him crazy /insane to the point he hangs himself
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As they say in our "education" system: "Who was Adolph Hitler?" Excuse me, I gotta run t'my sex education class, now.
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Nope, the war, despite the death it caused, brought a lot of technological advances and had other benefits. It helped America back onto it's feet after the depression, it brought some of the greatest scientists ever together in one place, which benefited everyone and it showed us the French can't fight. Why mess with something when you can't predict the consequences?
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I'd travel back in time and kill GWB!
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Yes because then I wouldn't exist. One could argue that an alteration such as this could change the lives of your parents causing them not to have you, or they could have a child at a differnt date. The odds would be favorable that I would have never been born in this scenario, which would have been preferable to me.
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Glad I'm not faced with that decision...that a far Greater Authority took care of it...and, IMO, is STILL taking care of it...the fate worse than death.
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Not without knowing the consequences. 3 possible worse fates come to mind: . 1. WWII killed off about 100 mil people, many young. How much more over populated would the world be now. 2. Japan was just about as bad as the Nazis. The US may not have gone to war with them - at least not in time to stop them. 3. Hitler forced Stalin to expend vast resources- ones that would have been available for a European and maybe later, global expansion of his. . And that's just 3 obvious uglies. +5
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Probably not! I believe that attempts to explain bad things in history as being the results of the actions of one awful person are misleading. The Nazi phenomenon was probably the result of many more things in addition to Hitler as odious as he was. Killing him probably would not have helped.
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