Who would you be?

[Lazier Than Thou]

Hitler. Do you know how many lives I could save by not being a jerk?

Not sure tbh. If Hitler hadn't come to power there probably still would've been a WW2. But what kind of war would it have been without him?

I'd like to be Einstein, someone like Sun Tzu or a figure in a fantasy world like Middle-Earth.

Well, the question is would the holocaust happen had there been no "jerk" Hitler. You can make the case that someone would have started the war, but could you also make the case that same person would take the same road Hitler took?

No, definitely not. That's what I'm saying; you cannot know what would have happened, except for that assertion that the war probably would have occured anyway. Which means that if not Hitler, it could easily have been someone who would take an even more drastic road than he did. How do you think the (cold?) war would look like if it would've been a more sane person who remained friends with the soviets?

Oh you crazy kids and your logic.

Still, I think a case could be made that it wouldn't have been as bad. I think it was directly because of Hitlers beliefs that caused the people to go down the road of Eugenics which resulted in all the racism. Then again, if that hadn't happened we would have an obvious outcome for not going down the same road. Kinda high price to pay, though.

 

[Mozared]

Oh you crazy kids and your logic.

Still, I think a case could be made that it wouldn't have been as bad. I think it was directly because of Hitlers beliefs that caused the people to go down the road of Eugenics which resulted in all the racism. Then again, if that hadn't happened we would have an obvious outcome for not going down the same road. Kinda high price to pay, though.

Hmm, I disagree. I reckon you know the saying "It has to get worse before it gets better"? I think a lot of that applies here; suffering was probably needed to settle society 'one and forever'. It's been that way since mankind existed, anyway. Just as depressions all grant us the experience to improve ourselves, wars grant mankind as a whole the experience to improve society as a whole. Heck, society is technically the plural of 'me'. I think that if it hadn't been as bad during the war, we would've currently still been suffering the aftermath of the war. Even with the way it ended up happening in mind, we still have neo-nazis around. If the war would've been less intense, there would also be a lot more unrest in Europe and practically the entire world with that.

We're going off-topic, though >.>

 

[GeoPB]

Captain Price.
I have to stop, don't I?!

I'd be Gaz ;p

That is blasphemy and a felany in many countrys.