• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Agreed, even with a time machine… secret service would make it quite difficult. Obviously the morality of killing baby hitler is always a thing.

    Really though more morally though you probably could prevent most politicians from being politicians non lethally. Break into the hospital, swap him with another baby. It’s a combination of nature and nurture so… if you change the upbringing, he probably won’t wind up president.

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      3 days ago

      One suggestion I’ve seen regarding Hitler is getting him when he was a runner in WWI. Nobody would question another casualty.

      As far as modern evil people go, making sure that baby in a hospital in Queens in 1946 doesn’t go to a rich family would almost certainly prevent a lot of future suffering. He’s a born narcissist and would always be an asshole, but without rich parents propping him up he likely wouldn’t have gone anywhere of note. He’s not nearly smart enough to have made it on his own.