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Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

It you could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler as a child, do you think you could do it ?

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:45 pm

No. I don't mess with history or the time/space continum.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

No. I don't mess with history or the time/space continum.

And if you could? Could you kill a three year old Hitler ?

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:47 pm

How old am I?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

physically or mentally?

Whatever your ag is now.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:51 pm

Both. Like if I am three also I may not know how to kill.

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:52 pm

I'd Gas the little Austrian twat.

Twice.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

Both. Like if I am three also I may not know how to kill.

Oh do so welcome to the board! Assume you're an adult with (and this bit might be tough) with an adults mentality.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:57 pm

I can't decide. F***ing with time and space is bad karma.

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:57 pm

Imagine how different the World would be? The population for start would be significantly larger which could be adversely affecting the world now. More unemployment? Less food? Less lebensraum!

But without question deleting a man like Hitler from history could only be for the good of mankind.

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:58 pm

Mr I wrote:

It you could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler as a child, do you think you could do it ?

i COULD do it, but whether i would or not is a different story.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

But could you bring yourself to murder a toddler?

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:00 pm

Exactly me point. Which is why I asked how old I was in this crazy adventure.

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:01 pm

Mr I wrote:

But could you bring yourself to murder a toddler?

But you are talking about a man who you know would go on to exterminate hundreds of thousands of toddlers in gas chambers.

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:02 pm

PJ_Poolie wrote:

Mr I wrote:

But could you bring yourself to murder a toddler?

But you are talking about a man who you know would go on to exterminate hundreds of thousands of toddlers in gas chambers.

precisely that, what is more important, one life or millions of lives?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

For sure the world would have been a better place without him but even with that knowledge taking the life of a baby is tough. It's extremely hard to shoot someone who is trying to kill you and you mates let alone a kid.

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:06 pm

It's a wacky world we live in. That's for sure.

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:08 pm

Mr I wrote:

For sure the world would have been a better place without him but even with that knowledge taking the life of a baby is tough. It's extremely hard to shoot someone who is trying to kill you and you mates let alone a kid.

i feel a bit insensitive now, knowing what you went through.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

Naw, I wasn't going all Uncle Albert, I was just making the point that taking a life in cold blood is not an easy thing to do and despite knowing what was in store, Adolf was at one point in time a bonny little toddler. Could you, even knowing his future, top a cute little three year old?

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:21 pm

i definately could kick him in the nuts....HARD, will that do?

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:27 pm

MadJohn wrote:

A bit simplistic innit, unless you believe that the man was born a maniac? Wouldn't it be just as effective to tell his parents they should maybe give him a few more hugs confised

Anyway, if you took this single terribly charismatic figure out of history would you change the course of the 20th Century? Germany, with all of its WW1 treaty grudges, willingly followed Hitler where he led. Without him would they have followed another, and could that have been just as bad? Or even worse?

That's pretty much what I said MJ. :wink:

Spiff · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:09 am

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Given the same powers, would you kill a 3 year old Jesus Christ? Bet that would have saved a shitload more lives over the course of history

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Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

A fair point.

Frodraff · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:57 am

Not possible, don't even go there. There would've been some other power seeking meglamaniac around if he wasn't there to do the evil he did. The victor gets to write history remember.

verbalkint · **Joined:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:08 pm **Posts:** 3135

No i couldnt do it

How do we not know that 1 person who died because of Hitlers actions might have gone on to be worse than him, if you get what i mean

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:00 am

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

No. I don't mess with history or the time/space continum.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:07 am

MadJohn wrote:

Look at that haircut :laugh:

Taking the facts that he was to kill so many thousands plus that haircut I would have put rat poison in the fckers milk.

Oh, and in case anyone doubts the authenticity of that baby photo, it is DEFINATELY hitler..

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:05 pm

As long as i could do Martin Scott as well.

norgepoolie · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:46 pm

chip fireball wrote:

not a question of being hard, i just happen to have a fooking brain in my head. :roll:

What if by killing Hitler you cease to exist because your parents never met because your grandparents never met because there was no war.

The world would be totally different to what we know now. We would all probably not be here.

As Madjohn said: What if you kill Hitler and that lets Stalin become so powerful he takes all Europe and we're all Commies now Comrade?

Agree on Chris de Burgh tho.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Maybe we should wipe chris de burgh out instead?

norgepoolie · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:55 pm

Thin and Crusty wrote:

Yubep wrote:

Maybe we should wipe chris de burgh out instead?

Too late. The damage is done.

So in conclusion. Are we all in agreement, that Chris De Burgh caused the holocaust?

I'm pretty sure we can pin a few other things on him as well. Wasn't he on the grassy knoll?

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Chris de burgh has weapons of mass destruction

katcha · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:00 pm

Frodraff wrote:

Not possible, don't even go there. There would've been some other power seeking meglamaniac around if he wasn't there to do the evil he did. The victor gets to write history remember.

you on bout jesus or hitler?

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:04 pm

Yous have ruined a perfectly good thread. banghead

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

You would all interupt the time space continubleurgh

Don't any of you watch back to the future?

Marty nearly ended up getting off with his own mam!

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:44 pm

This is a cracking question. I have been asking people at work and the opinion is very mixed!

norgepoolie · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:19 pm

chip fireball wrote:

for the record norge, the nazis killed my grandad on my dads side.

my dad was born before the war and my mum just after it.

it would have been much better if my mum had never met my dad.

and the world would have struggled to have been a worse place without hitler than it turned out to be with him.

id certainly take my chances topping the tw@t.

I'm not saying topping him is wrong. I'm saying it's not a "no-brainer". To a lot of people currently leading a reasonably comfortable life it would be a tough decision as Grave has found out at his works.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

So we're all going back in time and wiping chris de burgh out then?

parmopooly · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:53 pm

why was this question asked in the first place? I forget now........

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I've got a flux capasiter thingy ma jig

And if all else fails i've got the back to the future box set so we could maybe just watch and dream?

I'll buy you a kebab

parmopooly · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:57 pm

no it was Stalin. I think.

Thinwall · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:58 pm

Time travel is only possible if your Sonic Screwdriver is fully charged :grin:

.

Big John Daly · **Joined:** Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:51 pm **Posts:** 67

Im confused. Does that mean if someone went baack in time and wiped out Hitler that my History exam wouldnt have been on WW2 but on Chris De Burgh's Lady in Red???

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37383

The thing is, no one knows what might have happened, if someone had bought his paintings, or his idolised mother hadn't died when he was younger, maybe the whole thing would never have happened, it might not have been necessary to kill the child. Who's to say something worse might have come along, we don't know and no one's going back to do sod all about it anyway.... and if they did, could they also pop off Stalin, Mao, etc, etc....

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Can you imagine the scene, let's say history is a little different, and he wasnt mental, walking into your mates, oh thats a nice photo, where'd you get that...

Oh it's the new adolf hitler piece, nice isn't it?

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:05 pm

You can't mess with the space/time continum! banghead

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37383

Obafemi Obsession wrote:

You can't mess with the space/time continum! banghead

You can y'know.... our lass insists she's 28...ish. :roll:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:08 pm

Wasn't there a shite Film made about this....Soldiers went back in time and one of them had Hitler in his sights but couldn't do it as it would change History/Future etc etc????

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:11 pm

What would yous have done if young Adolf told you was he a Poolie and he hated Loids? rolf

LeicesterPoolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:48 pm **Posts:** 1278

could you go forward in time and top a three month old, POK ?

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