Given a chance would you kill baby Hitler?

[Edwardo Piet]

This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

It's true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide. [...] I'm a postmodern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.

(On being prepped for a gig supported by the bank, UBS) She told me not to mention Nazi Gold, and of course if you tell a comedian not to do something, they'll immediately go and do it. So I went out on stage on a giant, neon Swastika, and sang "Gold, gold/always believe in your soul/you're indestructible-like the Third Reich!""
[...]So go into your local branch of UBS, and say "I'd like to open an account please.", and when they say "What with?" take out a loud hailer and say "NAZI GOLD! Just like you did!"

[ignoramus]

Yes, there are lots of loosely defines concepts which are all subsets of the parent!

BULLSHIT
^^^^^^
RELIGION, TIME TRAVEL, HOMEOPATHY, SPACE TRAVEL TO the MOON! (Yeah Right! Pull the other one!)

[Edwardo Piet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suQbTyxjmXI

[Thumpalumpacus]

One man's war is another man's terror, apparently. I'm certainly not justifying any of them when I point out that classing war as terrorism in order to rescue a weak point is pretty silly.

That's not what I have done. I never said all wars are acts of terrorism. I didn't list the USA's involvement in WWI or WWII as international terrorism now did I?

And yet you perfectly well could have, if you consider the hundreds of thousands of victims of aerial bombardment delivered with the precise objective of destroying civilian morale.

I gave you a bunch of examples which are textbook terrorism. That is: violence to achieve political goals.

And yet you say war isn't terrorism?

In addition to terrorism the USA is also guilty of war crimes, and other international crimes.

I think so.

Australia is guilty of some international crimes as well, particularly the 1951 Refugee Convention.

I think so.

But we are not a terrorist State, nor is China, nor is most of Europe.

Nonsense on the last two. Given the historical scope you're comfortable with using, both China and Europe have committed atrocities against millions, be they Jews or Chinese political prisoners.

Australia's not a terrorist state, perhaps. I'd have to look at more detail in order to say.

[The Grand Nudger]

I've been giving the OP Q alot of thought.  I wanted to respond, off the cuff, with something witty, but I kept holding back,  to do it justice.  I gotta tell you, I don't think I could kill baby Hitler.  I'd trade my life for his, even knowing what he grows up to be.  It's kind of disappointing, to realize that you have such a glaring weakness. All together or not at all, when it comes to human beings and human babies. I just can't think my way around it. It's kind of fucked up. I'm gonna chalk this one up to biology and move on.

Time travelers, you've been warned. Baby Hitlers got a real dirty security detail. I'll bite ya in the nuts man, don't step to an infant, I can't control myself.

[Anomalocaris]

If that is the only thing I can chose to either do or not do while I am back in time, I would most certainly grab baby hitler by the ankles and dash his head against the nearest wall.

But if I am to go back to 1889, and stay there and have a choice of one thing that I can do sometime over the next 30 years, I would not necessarily chose to kill hitler. There may be substantially more sure ways of making the future better.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

The net effect of Hitler living and doing what he had the effect of creating the modern world, which is better than the old world. If anything he should be celebrated as a world hero. He united the world against him and his ideas and consequently we know that those ideas simply won't work. And most people, especially younger ones in the Western countries, owe their very existence to him because his actions caused their parents to meet at the right time for them to be conceived.

Eliminate Hitler and you also eliminate almost everyone you know, including yourself.

[Reforged]

Can I just say I think it being Hitler is incidental.
You all just want to kill babies.
Pro-life for the win bitches.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Can I just say I think it being Hitler is incidental.
You all just want to kill babies.
Pro-life for the win bitches.

A sizable percentage of the world's total population is superfluous.  Things will get even worse in a few years when robots take over more jobs around the world.  How many people will be pro-life then?

[loganonekenobi]

As sad as it is to admit it... no cause time is an awefull thing to mess with. who knows what the world would be like today