Jeb Bush said if he could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler as an infant, he gladly would if he was given the opportunity.
“Hell yeah I would!” the former Florida governor stated. “You gotta step up, man.”
However, Bush isn’t the only one who feels this way. In October, New York Times Magazine asked this same question to it’s readers – forty-two percent said they would kill Hitler as a baby in comparison to thirty percent who said they wouldn’t.
As tempting as it would be for me to do so, I wouldn’t go back in time and kill Hitler when he was a baby.
And the reason why I wouldn’t (and couldn’t) do such a thing – despite the absolutely horrific atrocities that this aberration of humankind has committed against all of those innocent Jewish men, women and children – is because when Hitler was an infant, he himself was innocent. In my opinion, people aren’t born wanting to kill; murderers and psychopaths kill people without remorse or conscience because of the environment they’ve been raised in as well as the emotionally damaged and abusive parents or people they’ve been raised by.
Personally, if I could go back in time, I would kidnap baby Adolf Hitler from his abusive parents and take him out of the country to a kind and stable family who would raise him with love, understanding and affection. This may or may not have prevented similar horrors from occurring in that time period as there probably would’ve been another psychopath to take his place. Nonetheless, this is what I would do.
I won’t even get into the discussion about how time travel of any kind would most certainly cause a paradox that would eventually collapse reality in it’s entirety. Yet, if by chance it didn’t create a paradox, then there is reason to believe that it could possibly create an even more catastrophic event to occur in human history.
Would YOU travel back in time and kill Adolf Hitler as a baby? Or would you take another course of action, or none at all?
