If you could go back in time to kill hitler, would you do it? why?

"i have a gun you have a time machine let's kill Hitler"

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it would change the course of history

My Dad & Uncle were already there trying to do It. WW II Vets

Well... no, just his mother hehe

Just me going back into time would change things and if I try to kill someone then I don't know what would happen.

Things would be radically different. I'm no fan of Hitler or what he did, but things may have turned out even worse. The United States may have slipped back into depression, the Soviet Union was relentlessly industrialising. The Soviet Union may have crushed Germany anyway, that may have resulted in Soviet Europe. Even though Hitler lost and handed Stalin Eastern Europe on a silver platter, he took a chunk out of them, in the long run he crippled Russia. If Hitler had not invaded the Soviet Union it would have been far stronger, and it may have been able to successfully challenge the United States during the Cold War.

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The ripple effect would be inconceivable

I would just give him free entrance & scholarship to Fine Arts & Painting School in Vienna . That would change his life & destiny of many .

killing is wrong...
the world would be a very different place and i may not have been born if i changed the course of history

Killing Hitler would not affect the future from which I originated. Simply arriving at a particular point in the past would automatically trigger what is known as an N-jump,
In a nutshell, this means that a time traveller would not have to make a deliberate attempt to change anything because the fact that someone from the future has arrived
already taken care of that.

The Hitler in the timeline which I intended to change would remain exactly the same simply because I am no longer in that time line. History in the timeline I left would play out exactly the same way I remember it, right up until the date and time at which I left the future.

Even if I decided to go ahead and kill Hitler anyway, Once I'd stashed my gun and made a run for the future, I would then be faced with the unenviable task of explaining everything to my doppelgänger, unless of course I just killed him too and took over his life.

You have no idea how much I want to say yes but it would mess with time-space continuum which would ultimately destroy the universe... or create a paradox which wouldn't work either.

Jonathan got 3 raves...

Your point? I wasn't aware this was a contest and even if it was he clearly has a more explained argument than I do. Hell I gave him one of those raves.

I was just saying, I also raved him.

Because the likelyhood of sucess is zero.

Time travel backwards through time is not as simple you might think and there are many that believe that it cannot be done - that instead of going back in time you would be jumping into a parllalel universe.


The problem about travelling backwards with in your own timeline is that by doing so you are risking a time paradox, Try to imagine if you accidentally brought about the death of your own grandfather - or worse became your own grandfather!!!

Equally, there is no way to tell what impact this might have had on history, for example if there had been no Hitler and no second world war, How many people would Stalin have slaughtered spreading his ideology?

Many more than Hitler I suspect: In a bid to spread Communisn and eliminating people of ALL faiths, politics and ethnicities that were incompatible with their own.


So you go back in time to kill Stalin and when you get back to your own time to find that an even worse dictator took over, and that you have created yourself an unending task...

This is the tragedy of man, that we have to learn a lesson by seeing how much Evil we are capable of and being thoroughly sickened by it.