Knowing he would be the cause of the massacre of millions of people? Would you look at the baby's cute face and be able to stuck a knife on him?
shareDunno...hard to say! I guess I wouldn't be able to kill the baby either.
shareI'll give you the watered down version of my essay on this question that has been asked a hundred times:
Not one parent has the ability to look into the future of their child.
In writing that, this Rosemary's Baby is the modern day telling of the birth of the Son of Satan. Look at the world of today. This Son of Satan has many options and one that needs to be considered is NOT to follow in his alleged father's footsteps. It's not like BC, it's AC, and times have changed, as well as how humans develop and chose their paths in life.
There is a piece of anime I am currently watching in America called Blue Exorcist. What is so interesting about it is that the "Son" of Satan, is learning how to be an exorcist to rid the earth of demons.
Huh. Nothing is ever black and white any more, not even for the alleged Son of Satan.
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That's a good question!
You should watch the 2002 Twilight zone episode: "Cradle of darkness" ( s01e05 ) because your question is the plot of this excellent episode!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0734776/
It really was a good one.
Btw, what would you do?
I have to say that if I had knowledge that if my son was going to be hitler and that there was absolutely no way to change fate..then yes, of Course I would have to kill him. Are you kidding? It really isn't a question in my mind. Although the actual undertaking of it would be terrible, and would have to find the most painless way possible. Ugh.
shareWhy wouldn't you... You have the potentiality of saving millions of people's lives, and you wouldn't even have to use a knife to do it.
shareI hate to think of such a thing...but I guess if I were somehow able to know for a fact that the baby was going to be Hitler-type person, I would force myself to kill him, although I would do it as quickly and painlessly as possible.
shareI probably would not. If I could glean his future and know this, I would be one of those people that tries my damnedest to teach him right and change his ways. Maybe this is one of those can't alter their future scenarios, but I would die trying. So as a baby no. If he grew older and I knew what he would still do, that he would carry through, then yes.
shareNo way I could kill my own baby. Ditto what jacksakes said.
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This particular baby was half-human, for one thing.
And in Christian theology, even Satan/Lucifer and his followers had free will, the ability to make choices.
So wouldn't that mean that this baby had a better than half chance at not being a source of great evil? Possibly even being a source of great good?
Michael Haneke's film Benny's Video with a related question a little bit further on in the child's life: What should a parent do when their teenage son does great evil?
i'd absolutely, 100% kill him without a second thought, if i had such proof as she did in this movie, that the child was born of supernatural darkness and was the devil's son. I'd break his neck and then stab right through his head multiple times to be sure he was dead.
shareNo I wouldn’t. I would have raised the baby to do wonderful and beautiful things in the world and to be kind and not hateful. Maybe that would have changed things with him.
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