(August 31, 2014 at 12:30 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(August 31, 2014 at 12:22 pm)Losty Wrote: Second, and far more importantly, if I was god I certainly would not kill a baby hitler. I would create a baby hitler who wasn't interested in killing off all the Jews.
Or- to cut off any rambling about free will in response- you could create a series of small, natural coincidences that do not interfere with Hitler's free will, but nonetheless prevent him from attaining the power that would allow him to kill anyone.
After all, one's will refers to one's ability to think thoughts, not their automatic ability to succeed at whatever they want to. Otherwise gravity is god interfering with free will.
I don't believe that Hitler was predestined to want to kill all the Jews in the first place. I like where you're going with this, but I would take it even farther by changing the circumstances of his life so he would end up a well rounded individual who hadn't experienced whatever things made him turn out to be a murderous psycho.
Or better yet, never create a hitler at all. Only create people who naturally and on their own free will would never want to murder.
Or never create evil and then all people would naturally be good on their own free will.
If I was god, I would take advantage of my ability to know everything and do everything. I would change "all" the rules and I would know exactly how to make it work.
