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.
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Why not adopt him and prevent him from becoming the monster with a better home environment? Nurture vs nature.
I blame the art school admissions board. They rejected him. Twice.
Pricks. His art was actually pretty good, from what I’ve seen of it. They say he didn’t draw people, though, which is telling.
I prefer the ‘Trolley Car Problem.’ Five guys I don’t know on the main track, vs. my dog on the side track. I’ll save my dog.
When did these guys become my problem?
OK – lets make it harder: on one side is Hitler on the other side is your mother-in-law.
The program (pogram?) put this in moderation for a while.
Everyone kills Hitler their first time.
https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/
The last time anyone went back and tried to kill baby Hitler, they were unsuccessful. The Hitlers were on vacation. But the timeline got screwed up anyway, and things started to get weird. Now look at what’s in the White House.
I would never kill an innocent baby, even knowing what he would grow to become, but I would have no qualms with going back nine months or so before his birth to cockblock his dad.
On a side note, Fauci should not be allowed to escape like Mengele did,
Kill Baby Hitler? Hell, go back and kill baby Karl Marx and you’d save more lives and Hitler probably never rises to power.