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Originally posted by blupblup
Originally posted by Omphale
Unfortunately, it took several, at least, 'evil' kids to cause that death toll. And the preparations began long before Hitler became a player in it.
Well yes, I know I'm over simplifying it and giving Hitler more "credit" than is due... he is essentially the poster boy for the regime and for the movement... and if it wasn't him, as someone else said, it would have been someone else.
But just for this purely hypothetical thread, Hitler will do as my target.
Originally posted by Omphale
But..realistically, Hitler was hugely unimportant, I can think of better preventative targets...if anyone would like to give me a time machine...I'm game.
Originally posted by blupblup
Originally posted by Omphale
But..realistically, Hitler was hugely unimportant, I can think of better preventative targets...if anyone would like to give me a time machine...I'm game.
Hmmmm
Who else?
Originally posted by blupblup
ETA: Mao, Ghengis Khan, Jesus?
Originally posted by blupblup
reply to post by Omphale
Well I edited mine spreading it out a little further.
Originally posted by blupblup
ETA: Mao, Ghengis Khan, Jesus?
but yes, sticking with the Germans, you're right.
Originally posted by diamondsmith
reply to post by blupblup
Homo sapiens?
Mao, Ghengis Khan, Jesus
Anyway we never learn anything from history,not even when we are near self extinction.
Just think of the landscape, the amazing species of animals, the huge whales and fish.... the HUGE birds.
Originally posted by diamondsmith
reply to post by gimme_some_truth
It is wrong to let a child die,but is wronger to let a dictator live.
How would that make me any better than him, if I let him die?
yes but they like that,when you action are approved it's hard to change the history.
it is about your actions leading up to
I think it is more a question of saving innocent lives.
It's really a matter of utilitarian ethics vs deontological ethics.
Originally posted by diamondsmith
reply to post by Turq1
I think it is more a question of saving innocent lives.
It's really a matter of utilitarian ethics vs deontological ethics.
Of course and build gas chambers and concentration camps,and mass executions.....
the allies would have been the bad guys in the history books
Consequentialism is not neccesary the rightness or wrongness of an act or rule but more like a nonmoral good.
Then that would be utilitarian ethics.