We asked @nytmag readers: If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? (What's your response?) pic.twitter.com/daatm12NZC
— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) October 23, 2015
If you could, would you go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby?
The New York Times Magazine posed the question to readers, and the answer was pretty inconclusive. But Twitter users had some great reactions to the odd survey:
.@NYTmag y'all ok?
— starryknight (@sharisknight) October 23, 2015
@NYTmag if you were a hotline, would you bling?
— Margarita Noriega (@margarita) October 23, 2015
@NYTmag pic.twitter.com/4oVbGIHQfM
— steve boousseau (@steverousseau) October 23, 2015
@TimHerrera @NYTmag if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) October 23, 2015
@NYTmag If your ex Adele called, would you answer?
— Kevin O'Leary (@kevincarroleary) October 23, 2015
Nobody puts baby Hitler in the corner.
— Sam Adams — boo! (@SamuelAAdams) October 23, 2015
.@NYTmag I would take Baby Hitler and raise him as my own, putting his powers to use for good instead of evil.
— hambulatory skeledad (@JimmyBrangus) October 23, 2015
How many babies am I allowed as collateral damage here, @NYTmag? Can I use another baby as a weapon?
— James Erwin (@jlerwin) October 23, 2015
"If you could go back in time would you kill a baby--" "Yes." "...Hitler." "Right yeah. I knew you were going to say that."
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) October 23, 2015
What if Instead of killing Baby Hitler You rewrote the Treaty of Versailles Using the time machine you have Just a suggestion
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) October 23, 2015
None of us get time machines because we’d shoot an innocent kid instead of teaching him to paint.
— Karan Lyons (@karanlyons) November 13, 2014
NYT Magazine apparently thought the responses to its query were pretty good:
lol
— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) October 23, 2015
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