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It's not just education, it's shitty parenting. You'd recursively have to educate Hitler's parents, and to do that you have to educate their parents etc. ad nauseum. Pretty soon you'd blow your stack. Naive interventionism is worse than just whacking Hitler.


I think the point is to whack hitler now but also invest in education now so that you have less hitlers to whack in a few generations time.


Do people really grow up to be their parents? Did you?


They don't. People grow up to be like their friends, who in turn grow up to be like the general cultural sentiments among the adults they interact with. (Source: The Nurture Assumption.)


Why do you think Hitler was Hitler?


Why do yall think Hitler invented anti-semitism in Germany? Big Bad Wolf fallacy.




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