Well, happy Monday, everyone, and no. If you have a flux capacitor and a delorean, you shouldn't go back in time and kill baby Hitler.

The reason that we're even discussing baby Hitler, of course, is because last Friday, Twitter went up in flames after the New York Times magazine posted the results of an online poll.

It was, Dear Reader, could you kill a baby Hitler? The answers from the readers, 42% said yes, 30% said no,

28% said they were unsure.

Note, not sure who bothers to take the time

to vote unsure in an internet poll.

That's somebody with way too much time on their hands.

This alternative history has been considered

many times in fiction, and it usually ends badly.

So I figured that I would tell you there are two reasons you should not go back in time and kill baby Hitler

if you actually end up with Doc Brown in the passenger seat.

Number one, you are not God.

The fun of counterfactuals is this perfect hindsight of history.

We all know that Hitler became an emissary of tremendous evil,

and so we think that if we killed him when he was a baby, all of that would have been prevented.

That, by the way, is exactly the logic behind the eugenic abortion movement, backed by some leftist

readers of the book for economics. The babies are going to be criminals anyway, so you may as well

just abort them before they're born. In fact,

I really don't understand why only 42% of leftists would have killed baby Hitler. 100% of them

would have killed fetus Hitler. You just kill them as an unborn baby, and then you really don't have to

worry about it. But here's the thing. Babies can actually be shaped and changed. If baby Hitler had been

adopted by a Jewish family as a kid,

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