Imagine you're granted a one-time opportunity to travel back in time to when Adolf Hitler was just a child. In this moment, you are given the choice to kill him, with no consequences to yourself in that instant. Consider the weight of his future actions: Hitler's role in the Holocaust and World War II directly contributed to an estimated 85 million deaths. By taking his life now, you would prevent all of that horror. One life in exchange for millions, an easy decision, right?

But what if there's more to it? Killing Hitler doesn't just save those 85 million lives. Instead, his death radically alters the entire course of history, erasing the timeline you know today. Without him, the cascade of events that followed his existence plays out so differently that, shockingly, the lives of 8 billion people, including everyone alive today, never come to be. In this version of history, Hitler's presence was a crucial pivot, a keystone in the sequence of time. Removing him erases everything.

Would you still do it, knowing that by stopping Hitler, you'd sacrifice the lives of 8 billion people, including everyone you’ve ever known and loved? And here’s the real catch: you have no idea what the new timeline will bring. It could be better, or it could be far worse. All you know for certain is that this world, your world, would cease to exist.

Would you take that risk?