Saturday, 24 October 2015

If you get a chance to meet baby Hitler, Would you kill him?


If you could travel back in time like Albert Einstein relativity theory suggests and had an opportunity to kill Baby Adlof Hitler, what would you do? New York Times weekly pole is the current trending topic of Twitter. Readers are in a dilemma, would they take this opportunity to kill him or would they prepare him for a better future? Many readers came up with hilarious comments.

The New York Times has this weekly pole to develop a better understanding who their readers really are. This time they came up with this absurd and meaningless question. People like obscurity and oblivion so they jump in this fiasco, coming with strange explanations.
According to the pole result, A little more than 40% of people answered yes, while 30% said they would not kill the future dictator and author of the Holocaust. The remainder, 28%, said they weren’t sure.
However, the result is weird because it seems like none of these people who answered have intense understanding about time travel. They didn’t and considered the aftermaths that so drastic an action could reinforce and cause even greater disaster. Physics rules say that in a different timeline things could have gone very differently and if cold war went wrong then we could have been a pile of ash now.
The responses reveals how dumb and foolish this question is, and the responsive social internet seems to agree. Readers are having a laugh riot with baby Hitler today.
Jake Silverstein, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, was astonished by the results.
“I thought more people would say they would,” Silverstein told CNN on Friday. The question was part of a recent survey of 3,000 subscribers, conducted by the publication’s research and analytics department. The Hitler question prompted the magazine’s biggest response, Silverstein said.”I think that in recalling the slate of questions, that this is definitely the most ethically provocative of them,” he said.

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