Saw the movie.
That's two more reasons not to kill Hitler: John Cusack's career would be even worse off than it is, and nobody would ever have heard of "that Hitler actor," Noah Taylor.
Posted on 02/23/2014 11:06:23 AM PST by nickcarraway
In almost any science-fiction scenario involving time-travel, the default action is to kill Hitler. As terrible a human being as he was, there are many reasons why this probably isn’t a good idea
If you find yourself suddenly gaining access to a time machine, what’s the first thing you’d do? If you said “kill Adolf Hitler”, then congratulations; you’re a science-fiction character. Actually, the whole “access to a time machine” thing suggested that already, but the desire to kill Hitler clinches it. Any time-travelling sci-fi character (at least ones created by Western society) seems to want to kill Hitler, so much so that there’s a trope about how it’s impossible.
That attempting to kill Hitler has become such a common sci-fi plot device speaks volumes. What about Stalin? He was arguably worse, killing 20 million of his own people to fuel his ideology. But no, Stalin went about his business unmolested by time travellers, all of whom are busy targeting Hitler.
It’s understandable. Who wouldn’t want to prevent the holocaust? It’s probably the worst thing in history. And I only say “probably” because I don’t know all of history, and the human capacity to be awful should not be underestimated. But as noble as it seems, killing the Fuhrer via time travel is a terrible idea, for real-world reasons, not just those in fiction. So should you get hold of a time machine and make plans to kill Hitler, here are some reasons why you shouldn’t.
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Or Karl Marx.
Big mistake for Hitler not to focus on Russia, all he did was unite the enemy instead of dividing and conquering them.
That would never work, Women are too hard-headed.
Big mistake for Hitler not to focus on Russia, all he did was unite the enemy instead of dividing and conquering them.
OOPS!
Should be “Big mistake for Hitler not to focus on MOSCOW, all he did was unite the enemy instead of dividing and conquering them.
I can think of someone from the seventh century.
Saw the movie.
That's two more reasons not to kill Hitler: John Cusack's career would be even worse off than it is, and nobody would ever have heard of "that Hitler actor," Noah Taylor.
...and MadMo’s followers contributed to tipping Hitler to The Final Solution decision.
OTOH, God allowed MadMo’s ravings for a reason: SOMEBODY had to lay the foundation for the locust army’s formation in the End Times.
Good one. Although I liked him in Runaway Jury.
Don’t kill him just give him a one way ride back to prehistoric times and dump him.
A couple of years ago, there was a brief period, very brief, a matter of weeks, maybe, that the Guardian had some articles that were to the right of anything that the US LSM would report.
Probably sacked both the reporter and the editor...
Or rescuing his dog, Blondi.
-PJ
Mind -—> blown.
Then we’d be complaining out the tens of millions that Stalin killed as he enslaved Western Europe...
Yeah but River Song tried.
Adam was already there standing beside her and not doing anything to stop it.
The butterfly effect...
The Rothschild, Warburg and Schiff families circa 1912 would been better targets for time travelers.
This was the same newspaper whose editors tried to “arrest” Dick cheney in person. Cheney would have choked these morons in they ever tried touching him.
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