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Adolf Hitler nearly drowned when he was four years-old but was saved by a local priest, historians have claimed.
The story would have made more headlines if it had been a gay transexual rabbi who was communist.
So it was an act of god?
May seem like a good idea at first for the priest to not save him, but ever heard of the Butterfly Effect?
Hmmm...
So from your citation:
Is anyone suggesting that anytime we see a pre-pubescent child in danger of drowning (or other mayhem leading to possible death) we should think "He/she might be the next Hitler" and let them perish?
Humans are not gifted with foreknowledge of the future (we are not born Oracles, thank God), so we have to make our decisions on what is occurring in the present.
Yes, I would save a child drowning at the age of four, regardless of their name. That would be the NOW. Let the future take care of itself.
May seem like a good idea at first for the priest to not save him, but ever heard of the Butterfly Effect?
The time makes the man, not the other way around. Germany was in a bad place, desperate for anything to rally around, desperate to do anything, even declare war, to win their honor back. If not Hitler, someone else. Him drowning would make no difference.
Great observation.
But the little bastard should have drowned just the same.