Could YOU kill baby Hitler?

Hitchens

http://www.thejournal.ie/nyt-magazine-baby-hitler-2407424-Oct2015/

NYT Magazine asked readers "could you kill a baby Hitler?"

not me, no way in the wide earthly world could I harm a baby!

DrumSteve

Well not now I couldn't.

moc moc a moc

I don't think I'd kill him, I'd probably rape him instead.

Is that better or worse?

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DrumSteve

moc moc a moc wrote: »

I don't think I'd kill him, I'd probably rape him instead.

Is that better or worse?

I know its Hitler, but ****ing hell.

coolhull

Hitchens wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/nyt-magazine-baby-hitler-2407424-Oct2015/

NYT Magazine asked readers "could you kill a baby Hitler?"

not me, no way in the wide earthly world could I harm a baby!

Well, the baby hasn't done anyone any harm, so isn't the question a bit playschool-ish

AgileMyth

No. If I kill another baby people will think I'm weird.

Ally Dick

Nein

tomwaterford

In a heartbeat

mad muffin

No because WWII brought us so many technological and medical advances. It also reduced the population by a significant amount.

murpho999

Hitchens wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/nyt-magazine-baby-hitler-2407424-Oct2015/

NYT Magazine asked readers "could you kill a baby Hitler?"

not me, no way in the wide earthly world could I harm a baby!

I couldn't kill him as he's a baby but I would ask him if suffers from gas.

LDN_Irish

I'd ****ing knock him out the little zdope.

Mother Brain

moc moc a moc wrote: »

I don't think I'd kill him, I'd probably rape him instead.

Is that better or worse?

Then you'd have to tell people you had sex with Hitler though.

TheNobleKipper

What is the point of killing a baby? Why wouldn't you just take it away and try to bring it up to be a decent person that would grow up without some insane hatred of the world?

Sheep Lover

DrumSteve wrote: »

I know its Hitler, but ****ing hell.

Is rape worse than murder?

Nichard Dixon

it might be interesting to circumcise him though.

Medusa22

TheNobleKipper wrote: »

What is the point of killing a baby? Why wouldn't you just take it away and try to bring it up to be a decent person that would grow up without some insane hatred of the world?

Maybe just make sure he gets plenty of art lessons and he should be fine

c_man

This is just like that bit from Babylon5: The Lost Tales where Sheridan is pushed to kill a boy who he has a vision of attacking Earth when he's older. Instead of the easy choice, he instead kinda adopts him or something like that and raise him to be a good'un.

Where my B5 fans at?!

TheNobleKipper

Medusa22 wrote: »

Maybe just make sure he gets plenty of art lessons and he should be fine

And bagels

Hitchens

NYT poll result:

42% - yes
30% - no
28% - not sure

Mr_Muffin

I would name him Barry and ship him to Australia. Hopefully he would start a reign of terror over there instead.

The Hill Billy

moc moc a moc wrote: »

I don't think I'd kill him, I'd probably rape him instead.

Is that better or worse?

Wow. Whenever I shall see your username from now on I will think of that comment.

Stay classy, or whatever it is you think you are.

jaykay74

Hitchens wrote: »

NYT Magazine asked readers "could you kill a baby Hitler?"

Of course you could. Would you though ?

Very Bored

It would be somewhat futile as it was Mussolini who developed fascism and Himmler was probably even more an evil nutter than Adolf.

bnt

If a "baby Hitler" was born today, he wouldn't have the same experiences as the real Hitler did. His life was shaped by World War I and its aftermath: he was injured, and thought there was a conspiracy in German civilian circles ("Jews and Communists") to lose the war.

After the war he was assigned to military intelligence to spy on the German Workers' Party, but found himself in agreement with much of what founder Anton Drexler believed; he basically ignored his spying task and fully joined the party as soon as he was discharged from the Army. Without the war, he wouldn't have been in the Army, and wouldn't have been exposed to the ideas he later co-opted.

silverharp

as an alternative , kill his dad , apparently he was part of the reason he was messed up

Kermit.de.frog

silverharp wrote: »

as an alternative , kill his dad , apparently he was part of the reason he was messed up

"We need to send someone back to the time before the war..."

Hitchens

bnt wrote: »

If a "baby Hitler" was born today, he wouldn't have the same experiences as the real Hitler did. His life was shaped by World War I and its aftermath: he was injured, and thought there was a conspiracy in German civilian circles ("Jews and Communists") to lose the war.

After the war he was assigned to military intelligence to spy on the German Workers' Party, but found himself in agreement with much of what founder Anton Drexler believed; he basically ignored his spying task and fully joined the party as soon as he was discharged from the Army. Without the war, he wouldn't have been in the Army, and wouldn't have been exposed to the ideas he later co-opted.

"any chance you could answer the question?" - Vincent Browne

Laois_Man

Surely on the week that we saw Back to the Future day, we should know that disrupting the Time continuum creates a time paradox and a new temporal event sequence resulting in an alternate reality creating an alternate 2015

Doc would say....don't foooook with the time continuum.

So no!

RobertKK

I blame the parents.

Social services should have taken him into care.

moc moc a moc

Mother Brain wrote: »

Then you'd have to tell people you had sex with Hitler though.

I already tell people that

Magico Gonzalez

The Hill Billy wrote: »

Wow. Whenever I shall see your username from now on I will think of that comment.

Stay classy, or whatever it is you think you are.

However moronic you think people might be, you always underestimate them.

golfball37

If we want to avoid Nazi Germany we just needed to (in the words of private boldrick) stop the ostrich getting to the duke.

Dan_Solo

I know it's old but...
Hitler wasn't all bad... after all he did kill Hitler.

wakka12

moc moc a moc wrote: »

I don't think I'd kill him, I'd probably rape him instead.

Is that better or worse?

What the hell?

And to answer your question, yes I would. And wouldnt hesitate. I think people are born as evil as he was, he didnt develop murderous tendencies. But then again I can't say for sure how Id feel when I have a gun to an innocent looking babies head.

No. The Brotherhood of NOD would be far worse.

Sunflower 27

Kill him and save the lives of 6 million-plus. I would kill 'it' without hesitation.

Pink Fairy

He should have been taken from his parents and given to a nice Jewish family for adoption...... Adolf reading from the Tora in temple would be a sight to gladden any heart.

Massimo Cassagrande

Some evil lie spreaders say he was sired by a Rothstchild.. others say he was an Austrian..and if you've ever been to Austria, it's the Otherworld come to life...leading the nice Germans astray, the bad, bad man.....

I wonder will future generations point to pictures of merkel and comment on how another German leader fxuket it up for everyone, once again....

Personally, I'd have happily slotted the baby Adie.. someone ought to have slotted him before he was allowed to run amok.

Harry Palmr

I'd kill the baby Jesus. Did far more damage than Hitler.

xLisaBx

Not a hope. Great scientific and medical advances came from world war 2, and it also culled the population. The world can only hold so much realistically, and no disease pandemic was culling the population sufficiently at the time.

Dan_Solo

Anyone who's watched a SF movie or series know what happens when you kill Hitler to save millions of lives: somebody else kills 10 times as many instead.

sonofenoch

What about all the other German babies at the time who grew up to commit the real atrocities rather than the warped ideology, would you blow up a kindergarten ?

The Humble Sausage

Does the baby Hitler have a baby Hitler moustache?

wil

Sunflower 27 wrote: »

Kill him and save the lives of 6 million-plus. I would kill 'it' without hesitation.

Well just imagine the situation, twisted and stricken with guilt for murdering a little baby you spend the next several years in prison going mad and writing an insane tome you title Your struggle. On your release buoyed by the millions of nutters who have followed your insane ramblings you collectively go on an murderous rampage ......

Ok You see where I'm going with this

SEPT 23 1989

An Irish man could have put a bullet in him in a drunken beer Hall brawl in Germany in the early 30's

True story

DrumSteve

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I'd kill the baby Jesus. Did far more damage than Hitler.

Jesus was a decent skin.

It's the lads who followed him who were the problem.

Fleawuss

mad muffin wrote: »

No because WWII brought us so many technological and medical advances. It also reduced the population by a significant amount.

Most apt nickname

FloatingVoter

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

An Irish man could have put a bullet in him in a drunken beer Hall brawl in Germany in the early 30's

True story

Urban myths thread is elsewhere.

I'd be too busy writing surefire hits (start with Gershwin and work up to the Beatles by 1900) to be bothered killing Austrian brats. He pops up looking very happy altogether in a crowded square at the declaration of World War 1. I'd catch up with the 25 year old Adolf then.
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DivingDuck

I'd be very hesitant to do anything that would mess around with the history of the 20th century, especially considering the weaponry that was developed in the period.

Way too easy to do something for the good of the human race and end up wiping it out entirely. It's impossible to predict the consequences of killing one of the biggest influences on the period, no matter how destructive that influence was.

Paddy Dreadful

No but I'd try to score a conversion on a rugby pitch with him, if he survived that then fair game

The Hill Billy

xLisaBx wrote: »

Not a hope. Great scientific and medical advances came from world war 2, and it also culled the population. The world can only hold so much realistically, and no disease pandemic was culling the population sufficiently at the time.

Uncle Joe, is that you?