Would you kill Hitler?

[Hammer Britannia]

Go back in time to find bob ross, have him teach hitler to be a better painter

Es gibt keine Fehler, nur glückliche Unfälle

Siehst du diese Juden? Sie sind jetzt Vögel

[Ifreann]

Seems ya missed the part where we don't stop the Nazi-killing 'til they've either been driven to submission or their ideology has been wiped from Earth by force. :^3

And you just end up with a power vaccum that could be filled with other undesirables.

Yes, yes. "Who could be worse than Nazis?" Fair question. I don't know. But that's kind of the issue. We don't know.

Messing with the past, however well intentioned, is superbly dangerous.

How would there be a power vacuum in the absence of the Nazis?

Hitler didn't take over terra nullius. Weimar Germany had a democratic government.

[Geneviev]

Other than killing millions of people? He made my own family into Nazis. That's pretty horrible. So is killing millions of people, too.

"Made" them into Nazis? That implies that they didn't have a choice in the matter...

My oldest grandfather was twelve when the war started. None of them really had a choice.

[Kaggeceria]

Until you get killed during your travelers. Or interlopers discover your technology and take it for themselves.

No one should have that kind of power.

>implying you can't just time travel away from those bad-ends and correct the issue

Not if you're too far away from the time machine or just get snuck up on.

[The Niceties of Normal Moral Constraints]

And you just end up with a power vaccum that could be filled with other undesirables.

Yes, yes. "Who could be worse than Nazis?" Fair question. I don't know. But that's kind of the issue. We don't know.

Messing with the past, however well intentioned, is superbly dangerous.

How would there be a power vacuum in the absence of the Nazis?

Hitler didn't take over terra nullius. Weimar Germany had a democratic government.

More to the point, since we have the ability to time travel and kill Hitler, killing subsequent Hitlers shouldn't be that difficult. The only real complication is getting in a careless hurry, and killing Eleanor Roosevelt by mistake.

[Uiiop]

How would there be a power vacuum in the absence of the Nazis?

Hitler didn't take over terra nullius. Weimar Germany had a democratic government.

More to the point, since we have the ability to time travel and kill Hitler, killing subsequent Hitlers shouldn't be that difficult. The only real complication is getting in a careless hurry, and killing Eleanor Roosevelt by mistake.

And even then due to the implicit rules set out you can just go back and trap yourself until the thing that would of happened pasted.

[Torrocca]

>implying you can't just time travel away from those bad-ends and correct the issue

Not if you're too far away from the time machine or just get snuck up on.

That's why you carry a pocket time machine and pocket sand.

[The Niceties of Normal Moral Constraints]

Just ran across a new solution, which calls for sorting all babies by murderable-ness, so as to determine median killability. It has unexpected consequences.

[United Muscovite Nations]

Hell yeah I would, he's a real jerk. I'm gonna go kill him right now in fact.

[Chernoslavia]

No.

[Pope Joan]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer tried to, and he was a great Christian.
He was also willing to pay the penalty for his crime (and they did execute him), and he confessed it as a sin.

Hitler might make an ideal target because he was so central to the regime. Inoer situations it might be pointless to kill a dictator because there would be so many others lining up to replace him.