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Originally posted by greenkoolaid
If you go back and kill Hitler then chances are that not one of us would be alive today. Oh, there would probably be around the same number of people on the planet if there were no other major world wars, but it would not be the same people that are here now. The timeline would be too messed up. Killing Hitler is not a minor thing that effects a few people. It is something that effects probably 95% of the people on the planet today.
Maybe some guy from my hometown who died in the war would have had a son that my mother would have married instead of my dad. I wouldn't be here. Every person on this earth beat the odds, we are all less than a one in a billion shot. If any other one of my dads millions of sperms that he shot out that night had inpregnated my mom somebody else would have been born, not me. That person would have had slightly different genetic information. And if my mom had become pregnant a week earlier or a week later, that baby too would have different genetic info than me.
What I am saying is that I am here because my parents had sex at that precise time. If Hitler was assisinated the whole world changes, the chance of my parents having sex at that exact time and passing on the same genetic information is pretty slim.
So yes you would save the lives of the people that died in the war. But you would doom about 6 billion of the people on this planet right now to non-existence. But hey, 6 billion other people that never existed might take our places. I would still not go back and do it.
Originally posted by DeusEx
... If those 5 million people get a shot at life, I'm willing to sacrifice myself for it.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Hmmm, lets see....
5 million Russians, untold other Allies lives.....6-9 million Jews.....Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........
Yeah....hitler be TOAST
seekerof
Originally posted by DeusEx
Sacrifices must be made, surfsup. I agree with seekerof.
DE
Originally posted by Barbarian
Well, if the killing of Hitler resulted in your not being born, you would not have been born to have the chance to go back and kill Hitler.
Originally posted by Seapeople
No, I would not kill Hitler. What would we put in our history books?? Duh...
Besides, we are human. We enjoy killing each other.
And dont tell me thats not the truth.
Originally posted by DeusEx
My call is that if you take one shot, you have to follow up and take a second. Taking out Hitler doesn't guarantee that WW2 isn't fought. Ever play the original Red Alert? In the introduction to that game, someone goes back and removes Hitler in his youth, only have to Stalin rise up and cause a ruckus in his place. My idea is to go back and eliminate all the 'problems' like Hitler and Stalin, ensuring a nice, quaint decade even if it means technological and economic stagnation.
DE
Originally posted by KrazyIvan
well theers a game called Red alert. in the beginning Enistine gose back intime and kills hitler right when he gets out of prison. no WWII. so you think. russia launches a blitz across europe and nearly takes it over. so if hitler was killed before wwii all of europe would probally of been under communisn at some time or another.
Originally posted by maynardsthirdeye
Originally posted by DeusEx
My call is that if you take one shot, you have to follow up and take a second. Taking out Hitler doesn't guarantee that WW2 isn't fought. Ever play the original Red Alert? In the introduction to that game, someone goes back and removes Hitler in his youth, only have to Stalin rise up and cause a ruckus in his place. My idea is to go back and eliminate all the 'problems' like Hitler and Stalin, ensuring a nice, quaint decade even if it means technological and economic stagnation.
DE
That "someone" was Einstein.