What If You Could Change History

[Perianne]

What if you had some incredible power to change one thing about history? Would you do it?

For example, you find yourself in a time machine. You exit at Adolf Hitler's bedside. It is 1889 and he is a newborn. Would you smother him, get back in the time machine, and come back to present time?

[Captain Obvious]

I'd change my powerball lottery ticket numbers

[Peter1469]

If you change something in the past it will change history. What if one of those changes meant that you weren't born?

[Croft]

I don't know. Looking at Europe today I'd probably tell Adolf to make an atomic bomb.

[resister]

If you change something in the past it will change history. What if one of those changes meant that you weren't born?

Yeah, that butterfly effect is a Mo-fo.

[Perianne]

If you change something in the past it will change history. What if one of those changes meant that you weren't born?

Sure, things would be different now. But would you change something if you could?

Would you kill baby Adolf and possibly save tens of millions of lives?

[Peter1469]

I don't know. Looking at Europe today I'd probably tell Adolf to make an atomic bomb.

Why in the world would you do that?

[resister]

Sure, things would be different now. But would you change something if you could?

Would you kill baby Adolf and possibly save tens of millions of lives?

Tampering with history is dangerous.

[Perianne]

Tampering with history is dangerous.

But would you do it if you could?

[resister]

But would you do it if you could?

No, I will leave that to the revisionist.