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Originally Posted by marichiko
I picked Hitler to kill because there would have been a chance that the atrocities (at least not on that level) might not have occurred without him.
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I'm not inclined to be so hopeful as to believe murder, however high-mindedly applied, would be a solution to any problems. Stuff like that can backfire, and how can you know that a worse horror is not unleashed as a result of your choice to eliminate that person? The fate of the world or any group in it rarely hinges on just one person at one time, and what seems obvious to us from our 20/20 hindsight is not what people of that time believed and may not be evaluated the same way in the future either. In other words, WE are not by any means fit to choose solutions. We prove that over and over again throughout history. Suppose the guy who tried to kill Pope JPII had been successful? He (or the people who sent him) believed that to be the best solution. The very foresightful CIA arranged to kill the legally-elected President of Viet Nam, as the best solution to all the problems he was causing them. Our government will make sure that we never know who believed that only the death of JFK would make things come out better somehow; maybe they even thought it would be better for "US", God forbid, because instead we got Lyndon Johnson and you know how many deaths that was worth.
If somebody could start a thread where we would list all the BENEFICIAL murders which occurred throughout history, I think it would soon become apparent that they are few and far between. For that reason, I believe that the little white pill has the potential to accomplish more in the long run. And regardless of which pill you want to try, please use those powers to do something about GWB!