Unpopular opinion.
Humanity is going to generate tyrants until we vaccinate everyone with a sense of morality and even then, we’re going to have problems with dark empaths starting shit as long as we think child soldiers can be saved.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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What’s even the point man, the world will still find a way to shit on us
The real criticism of this plan is that whether you assassinate Hitler or just prevent his birth, it doesn't solve the societal problems that led to the world wars. Hitler wouldn't have happened, but the Germans would still feel snubbed by the outcome of the Great War
Dude, don't you think we tried that? The first time we got Schickelcutlerstalin for some reason who killed everyone with his out off-control biological weapons. Then for some fucking reason we got a fucking snake hitler!
And now we are all out of time-travel juice and locked down in a reality where hitler lived AND an orange is also hitler. Well, I had a little bit left,but a giant testicle came along, kicked me in my testicles,shouted "you want fucking Mother Theresa torturing everyone to death" and disappeared.
Now I am stuck here. Fuck.
We have our own hitlers living now. I think we should care about them first before thinking on time traveling
Maybe someone did send a time traveler. But idk why they sent a kid with zero training and no scope lmao. It was so fucking close.
Everyone is always assuming that these time travelers have good intentions...
Someone should go back in time and convince monke to stay in tree
That's not how time works. If you go back in time and kill Hitler Hitler already happened in your timeline so he's going to happen again. You can't change things that already happened in your past.
Time is a one-way linear progression, you can't go back in the first place. Any fictional story where time travel happens necessarily has its own rules, and every one is equally valid
I don't think that space time works like that.
It's not like we actually know how time travel would work. Because, you know, it's not currently a thing at all.
I think that it's fairly ~~settled~~ accepted theory that if you perceived it it happened. If you went back to the past and caused it not to happen then it wouldn't have happened and you wouldn't have perceived it. Basically, you can't change what already happened because whatever you did in the past had already happened when you perceived and therefore nothing that you did changed anything.
Not at all. There is many ways to rationalize time, nothing is settled at all. The "settled theory" you talk about would create paradoxes, if time travel is ever made real. And paradoxes don't work well with reality.
There is actually a fairly common way to rationalize time that is the opposite of what you're describing: Time is entirely a construct, there is no past, no future, only the present. Take away all of humanity's memories and the past doesn't exist at all.
There's also an understanding of time that says it only goes forward, making time travelling to the past impossible.
If you don't like something that happened to you today and go back to 2000 to change something that change that you made in 2000 had already occurred in 2000 when the thing that you didn't like happened in 2025. What happened in 2025 happened after the change you made in 2000.
Time travel is a settled theory?
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That's not what theory means at all
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So if I leave my phone in 1929, nothing changes? That's absurd.
If you left your phone in 1929 then you had already done it in the past today. Nothing changed.
I feel like just accepting that as the answer is a philosophically lazy answer that simply doesn't pass the logic test because I didn't have a time machine. Now I do. Things change. And even if it doesn't change for us, it changes the course of time for them. Can you imagine the leap in tech if a modern flagship phone was found in the 70s? You wouldn't be able to go so far back that they're incapable of interpreting the tech, like what would a hunter/gatherer glean from a phone? Nothing. But in the 40s? Certainly we could have learned a lot from it by then.
You can't just wave off something that's pure speculation as if you know anything about it. This is as close to some weird time theology I can think of. Like the "gods plan" of time.
I disagree. If you made a change on 2000 you had already made it when whatever happened in 2025 happened. If you went back and killed Hitler in 1885 that had already happened in 1933 when Hitler was appointed Chancellor. What happened in 1885 didn't change what happened in 1933. Maybe you killed the wrong person. Maybe history got wrong who Hitler was. Maybe Hitler assumed the identity of the dead infant and went on to be appointed Chancellor. The point is that whatever happened in 1935 happened after whatever happened in 1885.
Many worlds theory gives us an alternative - in one world I left my phone in 1929 and that shaped that world tremendously.
But that didn't happen in my world and it can't, because my world is the world where no one left their phone in 1929.
Yes. There are many paths forward from any moment in time but only one path backwards. That means that to get to where you are right now whatever happened in the past has already happened and can't be changed.
Butterfly effect is as likely to make him more dangerous as it is to make him less
Then get hit with the plot twist that it was your "bumping" that actually conceived Hitler
This is the correct answer in any single chain deterministic universe... It always happened just like that.
Oh man, this happened with my wife too, just bumped into her and next thing you know she's pregnant. I can't believe how fertile I am sometimes.
Knowing what his father was like, it's very likely that they'd still produce a horrible kid.
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cuckolds Hitler's dad
discovers that paradoxes don't exist the hard way
It wouldn't be a paradox if Hitker's dad wasn't actual Hitler's dad. It turns out you went back in time to make that deposit and give us the timeliness we know.
That's still a paradox.
Its not. Its a time loop and probably proves determanism but its not a paradox.
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