It's a strange question to ask, one that's unlikely to have a straightforward answer, but the New York Times decided to ask it nonetheless - would you kill a baby Adolf Hitler?
The question opened up all sorts of discussions on time-travel, ethics, morality and... well... snarky comments on Twitter. Surprise, surprise.
The New York Times is asking people if they would kill people
— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) October 23, 2015
smash baby hitler with a rock & say "u dont understand i'm from the future he's going to kill alot of ppl", u still going to jail
— Desus Nice (@desusnice) October 23, 2015
[figures out time travel] [goes back 30 min, writes perfect baby Hitler tweet] [thinks of better one, goes back again, begins endless cycl
— Mark Berman (@markberman) October 23, 2015
#BabyHitler My neighbor's kid is going to start WWIII in 2049 - he is 3. If I kill him today will the judge let me off & I get a medal?
— Duncan Whitehead (@DuncanWhitehead) October 23, 2015
So, as you can imagine, the question got us thinking and we decided to come up with a survey of our own. Let's set the target and the question out for you.
Oliver Cromwell is charged with a campaign of brutal destruction and ethnic cleansing in Ireland during the 1600s with figures estimating that he was responsible for the death of 600,000 Irish people out of a total population of 1,400,000.
Look at that bastard.
So, we ask - if you had the ability to time-travel, would you kill a baby Oliver Cromwell?
Take our poll below and let us know what you think.
