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Originally Posted by hydrotoxin View Post
I hope you don't mind me changing the scenario a bit to make things interesting Odlov-
You see these three thugs stomping a puppy and you walk over with intent to kill them all. Then you realize- one of the thugs is your son. What then?

Squiziph had just asked a very similar question. Look at my reply.

Originally Posted by SmileyJones View Post
I'm wondering, what about killing Hitler not knowing about the atrocities he's committed? Say, before he became a Nazi leader.

Well that changes things entirely.
Then you wouldn't have a solid enough reason to justify your acts with.
At least nowhere near as solid as millions of corpses brought about by Nazi party.

Of course, unbeknown to yourself and everyone else you'd still probably be saving millions of people by killing him prior to his rise to power. But as they say; innocent until proven guilty.

I'm afraid I don't know much about Hitler's life, but I assume at one point in time he was still capable of leading a better life. What's to say some minor unpredictable event couldn't influence his life in a way that eventually leads to a different outcome?

Ah, the butterfly effect....
Quite possible - if such a thing was possible.
As far as i know there is no time travel, though, so....Things have gone the only way they could have gone.

We have no way of predicting these thugs' futures, what's to say some amount of punishment either through your own hands or through the law wouldn't keep them from committing more crimes?

It's possible. And it's also very possible that they would stomp and torture many many more animals before they are either brought to justice or somehow abandon their demented and detrimental urges.

I'm one of those people who prefers not to give people like them a benefit of doubt.




PS: if i (hypothetically) was to jump on someone's dog and stomp it's brains onto concrete, i would expect very bad things in response. When you do something like that you sort of abolish your own rights, as far as i am concerned. If i did that and the owner took out a knife or tire iron, it wouldn't be something i didn't expect or foresee. I certainly wouldn't go "woah man, chill out there. All i did was stomp your animal.....Why all the knives...?"
Last edited by Odlov; Nov 12, 2009 at 01:33 AM.