If you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler's mother?
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This philosophical question can be viewed differently than what I think you are implying.
What if you killed Hitler's mother, and in effect, changed world history so you wouldn't be born - your parents would never fall in love with eachother, and as such, you immediately ceased to exist.
Would you still kill Hitler's mother?
What if you killed Hitler's mother, and in effect, changed world history so you wouldn't be born - your parents would never fall in love with eachother, and as such, you immediately ceased to exist.
Would you still kill Hitler's mother?
I was just watching the terminator last week 
the question depends on whether or not you had complete information ahead of time about what her son would do.
the only possible person who could have known ahead of time is the christian god who is described as being all knowing and all powerful. since he knew what hitler would do and still allowed him to be born we must assume that god wanted hitler to do his evil deeds. that being the case if you killed hitlers mother you would be going against gods will risking eternal damnation.
Hell yeah his mother and Stalin's too. If I had to choose I rather kill Stalin's mother. He made Hitler look like a boy scout.
Actually lets do in Lenin' mother while we are at it.
John
Actually lets do in Lenin' mother while we are at it.
John
I believe the seeds of WWII were sown not long after WWI. If Hitler is erased from existence, a more competent (less insane) leader takes his place, and half of Europe ends up speaking German (and half of Asia speaks Japanese). Not to mention Germany would have built the first atomic bomb without Hitler scaring off or killing so many talented scientists and probably used it on the US and definitely would have bombed Russia straight to hell. Damn, what would the world look like today without the rise of Hitler and the Nazis? Maybe killing the idiot is a bad idea. Since time travel is possible in this hypothetical, maybe there's a better solution.
Now you're thinking. Plenty of hugs and kisses and tucking him in at night would have surely made him a less angry tyrant. Maybe he could have sparked the U.S. of E. and avoided the whole conflict, including the mess in the Middle East.