Religious people, for example, tend to say it would be wrong to murder Hitler in his cradle. How one answers the Baby Hitler question can reveal a lot about one’s moral philosophy. It’s asking a clear question: would you commit murder to save lives? This is one reason the Baby Hitler thought experiment is more interesting than the trolley problem (in addition to the fact that it involves one of the most vile monsters in history). Some say the Baby Hitler question is “a more dramatic version of the trolley problem,” but there’s a key difference: the former scenario involves a clear and explicit act of murder, versus merely flipping a switch to save some lives. We asked readers: If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? (What's your response?) /daatm12NZC Just 30 percent gave a definitive no, saying they would not kill the child. Twenty-eight percent said they were not sure. Forty-two percent said yes, they’d kill Hitler in his infancy. In 2015, New York Times magazine asked, If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? Readers couldn’t reach a majority consensus.
It’s a question with huge moral implications, and it’s one people are deeply divided on. There’s a reason the “would you kill Baby Hitler?” hypothetical pops up every few years.
“Cradle of Darkness” is a little campy, but it’s worth watching and can actually teach us a lot about our own ethics. Fathers, mothers, children,” she says gravely, moments before she is whisked back in time to become Baby Hitler’s nanny. “Adolf Hitler was responsible for the deaths of 60 million people. Heigl’s character, who indicates she has (ahem) special DNA that allows only her to travel through time, reasons that the moral thing to do is to strangle the wretched little Nazi in his cradle.
The difference, of course, is that in “Cradle of Darkness” it’s the good guys who are trying to kill an innocent person to change the future.
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Movie buffs will recall the T-800 cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor to prevent her unborn son from leading the resistance that takes down Skynet in The Terminator. The idea of sending someone back in time to change the future is a familiar one to sci-fi fans. Directed by Jean de Segonzac and written by Kamran Pasha, it stars Katherine Heigl as a young woman sent back in time to Austria in 1889 to rewrite history by killing Adolf Hitler when he’s just a baby, preventing (hopefully) the Holocaust and World War II. Later reboots of The Twilight Zone never impressed me as much, but the 2002 episode “Cradle of Darkness” is an exception. (In fact, I can still recite my favorite episodes, which include “ The Shelter,” “ The Hitchhiker,” “ Living Doll,” and “ A Game of Pool.”) Though it was well before my time, I always loved watching the original Twilight Zone series.
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