Friday Night Open Thread: Killing Baby Hitler

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 9:00 pm

Well, here we are again with another fun moral dilemma: if you could go back in time, should you kill Baby Hitler?

Yes.

A contrasting viewpoint might be ignored. Or it might be: “But he’s so little and cute, and does possess the potential to not be a monster. Are you going to kill someone who hasn’t done evil yet?”

Yup.

“But he’s just a baby.”

Don’t care. I come from the future. He’s Hitler.

“But someone worse could take his place.”

Yeah, right. He’s literally Hitler.

“What about Himmler?”

No charisma. No chin. Could never have mobilized the nation and its army, industry, working class, middle class, upper class, and financiers. Hitler did.

I hope this ends all debate on this not-so-vexing question. It’ll save a lot of time for future ethicists and their mealy-mouthed, kowtowing students. Remember, Bill Clinton was re-elected on his ethics. That says a lot about ethics.

Next week we may look at whether you should give your seat in a lifeboat on the Titanic to women and children. (Spoiler: The answer is also yes.) And if Hitler is paddling toward your boat (he would have turned 23 five days earlier), you should clobber him repeatedly with an oar for being a racist coward murderous bastard ****.

Now, I can anticipate a lot of counter-reasoning from the WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) crowd, and I have no counter-counter-argument. Too many counters. Since I’m not Jesus, I must (in poker terms) check to the Raiser.

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

Biden Walks Into Apartment on Upper West Side of Manhattan; Secret Service Whisks Him Away and Cautions Residents Not To Contact the Press

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 8:00 pm

Biden Deprives Mockery Websites the Opportunity of Making a Mockery of His Mockery of 9/11 Speeches

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 7:00 pm

No Film at 9/11.

Mockery Websites Hardest Hit

Democrats Quietly Slip 12 Months’ Paid Family Leave Per Year Into Massive Infrastructure Bill

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 6:00 pm

Australians Are Instructed To Move Neither To Left Nor Right Until COVID, Cold, Flu, Sniffles Are Completely Eradicated From the Face of the Earth

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 5:00 pm

Told Not To Drive Cars, Mopeds, or Bicycles Until the Last Vehicle Fatality Is Completely Eradicated in Australia

And, although I was going to make it a 30-day day-by-day running gag, here it is all in one place, because I’m already saddened and exhausted by it.

Oppo’s List of Another 30 Things That Should Have Totally Caused Australians To Lock Australia Down — But Didn’t.

When Cultures Collide

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 4:00 pm

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World Waits Breathlessly To See How Biden Screws up 9/11 Memorial

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 2:00 pm

Swiped Off the Internet: Biden’s Mandates

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 1:00 pm

Straight Line of the Day: Rutgers Is Banning an Unvaxxed Student From Taking Classes Via Computer. The Reasoning Here Is…

Posted by Oppo on 10 September 2021, 12:00 pm

Straight Line of the Day: Rutgers is banning an unvaxxed student from taking classes via computer. The reasoning here is…

Rutgers Bars Unvaccinated Student From Attending Virtual Classes
NY Post | 09 07 2021 | Lee Brown
A New Jersey student has said he is barred from taking classes at Rutgers University because he has not been vaccinated — even though he is only studying virtually from home.
Logan Hollar, 22, told NJ.com that he largely ignored the school’s COVID mandate “because all my classes were remote” from his Sandyston home, some 70 miles from Rutgers’ campus in New Brunswick.
But he was locked out of his Rutgers email and related accounts when he went to pay his tuition at the end of last month — and was told that he needed to be vaccinated even though he has no plans to attend in person.
Hollar has now been forced to miss classes that started Sept. 1 — and has been warned it could be weeks before a decision is reached on his application for an exemption to the vaccine mandate, he said.
“I’ll probably have to transfer to a different university,” Hollar told NJ.com, saying he knows of at least one other student in the same position.
“I find it concerning for the vaccine to be pushed by the university rather than my doctor,” he told the outlet.
“If someone wants to be vaccinated, that’s fine with me, but I don’t think they should be pushed,” he insisted, saying he doesn’t “find COVID to be scary” because he is healthy and “not in an at-risk age group.”
“I don’t care if I have access to campus. I don’t need to be there. They could ban me. I just want to be left alone,” he said.
Hollar’s stepfather, Keith Williams — who has been vaccinated — told the outlet he is “dumbfounded” at Rutgers’ stance.
“I believe in science, I believe in vaccines, but I am highly confident that COVID-19 and variants do not travel through computer monitors by taking online classes,” Williams told NJ.com.
“He chose to remove himself from an on-campus experience so he would not need to be vaccinated,” Williams said.
“Now to be removed and shut down from his Rutgers email and online classes during the start of his senior year seems a bit crazy.”
Rutgers spokeswoman Dory Devlin insisted that the university has “provided comprehensive information and direction to students to meet vaccine requirements through several communications channels.”
She noted that Rutgers’ policy differentiates between a “fully online degree-granting program” and “classes that are fully remote” but part of a course where other students are on campus, as in Hollar’s case.