Theoretical Moral Dilemma

[bendiviolet]

You can travel back in time to January 8, 1939 and assassinate Hitler, thereby preventing the Holocaust.*

However, you will be killed as a result. You will not return to 2009.

What do you do?

* He definitley dies, it's a given in this question, and no one else launches the Holocaust as a tribute to his memory or something.

Comments

[laura_seabrook]

I wouldn't, because of this!

More particular, the Twilight Zone tried twice: Cradle of Darkness and He's Alive.

[bendiviolet]

That's an interesting article. But here I am just looking at it from the point of view: Would you give your life to save millions of other lives?

[laura_seabrook]

Maybe if I knew some of them.

[bendiviolet]

You at least know of Anne Frank? Not meaning to load guilt on here, just stating a fact.