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Would you use time travel to kill baby Hitler?

submitted by Mordhaus

7 years 7 months 1 week ago

Well? Would you? Vox's Phil Edwards asked author James Gleick about the history of this unusual philosophical question.

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2:28 - Telegraph operation, you're doing it wrong.

Unintended Consequences: Turns out, someone came back through time to stop Jeb Bush from destroying the planet, and now we have Trump...

Moving this video to Mordhaus's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

coolhund says...

People are even too stupid to learn from simple and well documented history, so of course they arent able to judge if killing someone like Hitler would make everything right.
Simple facts like that Hitler was just able to rise that high due to many like-minded people, often get ignored completely, also where those people came from, what made them that angry, even though in 1919 some intelligent people already knew.
Its this biased view of things. Of course you cant judge things if you dont look objectively at them because it was indoctrinated into you that someone that bad must be evil itself and shouldnt be looked at with logic, that could put the blame on others or make him look less bad.

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