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Originally posted by lurkette
If we kill the devil all we have left to demonize is each other.
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Which, by the end of the 20th Century, we've pretty much come to. We used to create witches, now we create mental patients. (Yes, I stole that line, but I cannot remember from whom.)
On the subject of killing Hitler - another possible consequence is having WWII with someone sane in charge of Germany. You get to avoid the Holocaust, but Germany could end up winning the war. I have the "What If?" book that CSfilm mentioned. I haven't read the whole thing, but there are a couple essays in there that claim if Germany had attacked Russia through the Middle East rather than with the Barbarossa plan they could have won the war.
Of course, that could in turn have lead to atomic bombing of Europe by America, which would seem to have a fair chance of killing more people than the Holocaust.