(November 10, 2015 at 4:10 pm)abaris Wrote: As I said, when playing the time game, there are other figures preventing the first cause for Hitler and saving millions of people in the process. Short term, since nobody can say what would have filled the void. Hitler's just the demon mask everyone associates with the Holocaust. But there's a very complicated chain of events leading up to a nobody taking over a major industrial nation.
When removing Hitler, WWI still would have happened. The treaty of Versailes still would have happened. Only the person leading the nationalist right would have been a different person. Maybe a less emotional, even more determined one. There were lots and lots to choose from, who carried the same resentments.
There was actually another, less publicized German persecution of the Jews in the late 19th century. The whole world stood back and watched the Nazis. They could have stopped them if they'd wanted to, so what good would killing baby Hitler have done?
Plus, if you go back in time and are arrested and executed for killing an innocent baby, you will die before you are born and you won't be able to get back to your time machine to finish out the rest of your life in the 21st century. Go figure.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
