RANT & CHAT - No Politics

[Bird of Prey]

I too would like to weigh in on the question...

"If you could go back in time, would you kill Adolph Hitler before he came to power in Germany?"

In spite of the great evil he did, I would not kill him. His death might have made things worse. Another even more ruthless leader might have emerged, perhaps from that generation or from one of the generations that didn't emerge because the previous generation being killed in the war. Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't. At least we know the end result was that he was defeated, kill him beforehand and we have an unknown and possibly darker future. Also people forget that Hitler was also responsible for the Volkswagon and our own interstate highway system. Ike was impressed by the Autobahn and thought we needed a similar system to rapidly move our military around the country in case of attack.

BTW, great Trek reference and very appropriate. May I also offer what may be the best Trek episode and another appropriate reference to the discussion at hand...

"City on the Edge of Forever" Where McCoy is sent back in time to 1930's US and as a result the entire future is changed, No Star Fleet and No Enterprise to rescue Kirk and Spock on the planet. They go back to the same time to discover what McCoy did to change the future and "undo" it. Seems that McCoy saved the life of a seemingly insignificant social worker (played by Joan Collins). But with her survival she was able to start a "peace" movement that prevented the US from entering WWII until it was too late. Hitler and the Germans won WWII changing the future of mankind. At the end of the episode Kirk and Spock pevent McCoy from saving the woman and history is restored.
The lesson: changing anything in the past can have a very negative impact on the future.


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