1. You get to be a "hero"
2. You prevent the Holocaust
3. We've all been indoctrinated to think Hitler is a legitimate target for all of our hidden politically incorrect urges
and most importantly...
4. There is no element of personal sacrifice (most of these scenarios assume you won't be punished, you can return to the present and/or the killing part is completely risk free); hence "heroism" is cheap in this scenario (its not the kind of hard earned heroism like Jaime Lannister losing a hand and being threatened with the loss of his other hand by mean people, but still standing up for the woman; no, its the type where you can take an action without any price, with total ease, and give yourself a medal)
You cannot be a true hero unless you make a true sacrifice.
But of course, we all want to prevent the Holocaust right?
So I present to you something different, a moral dilemma where you will actually have to sacrifice something if you want to prevent the Holocaust:
You are given a chance to alter history by pressing a magic button.
If you press the button, you instantly change the past with the point of diversion being that the Nazis never take power. History changes accordingly, NOTHING is guaranteed except that 1. the Holocaust doesn't happen 2. the Nazis never take power in Germany 3. Your own present existence is not erased 4. Up to the present day NO OTHER VARIATION OF THE HOLOCAUST OCCURS, nothing on this scale
Perhaps another world war still happens, perhaps not.
However, there is a price. The price is that immediately after pressing the button, you resume your life in the present altered timeline. Instantly, 1 million people are killed, this group includes all of your family members and friends.
So then do you do it or not?
Is it not like the trolley problem?
Would you NOT rather have 1 million people killed instead of 17 million? Is it not selfishness or a lack of empathy if you choose your own people in the present over 17 million strangers in the past?
Do you have compassion for the victims of the Holocaust?
Please discuss:
1. Do you press the button or do you not? (trade 1 million lives in the present including all of your friends and family... to stop the Holocaust the death of 17 million+ in the camps)
2. If you choose not to press the button, what do you say to an extremely confrontational SJW who comes up to you and says to you: "How can you be so selfish? You chose 1 million lives instead of 6 million lives. Your mentality explains why so many people went along and contributed to the Holocaust."(as a point of clarification, this is a purely hypothetical character to provide an extra challenge for those who chose not to sacrifice their family)