re: Would it be morally justified, if you could go back in time and kill baby Hitler?

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I've heard people say how dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified, because it ended a war that would have costed a multitude of more lives if extended.
So if you could get into a time machine and kill baby Hitler, would you?

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What if you went back and prevented the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and thus prevented the spark of WWI?

Eliminating Hitler doesn't eliminate the sociopolitical context of Germany post-WWI that made them susceptible to authoritarian leadership. Eliminating Hitler very well may have resulted in some other person or radical ideology seizing Germany. What if Germany was then overtaken by Communist revolutionaries loyal to Moscow? You may create a worse scenario in the end. People exist and operate in certain conditions. The conditions are often as important as an individual leader.