This actually made me really sad.

Pepe_Silvias_Mail · 17 days

If there is no WWII, do I ever get born? Probably not?

IntentionallyRude · 17 days

That must have been a tough one for the Jews.

Shift-Slasher · 17 days

Preventing WW2 would mean that our technology would be ages behind what it is now, and also the world would not be the same place.

If nobody had ever fired a nuclear weapon, would we be so reluctant to do so nowadays?

sl33tbl1nd · 17 days

Messing with a major event like that is a bad idea. The money is a far better option.

thesnakeinthegarden · 17 days

Don't fuck with time travel.

just_another_ant · 17 days

If you prevent WWII...the Nazis win?

GeneRottenberry · 17 days

Imagine how Hitler feels.

scottschism · 17 days

if we stop WWII then there wouldn't be any jews anymore

sturdyballs · 17 days

What app is that?

TheWhite2086 · 17 days

Downvoted for repost and stupidity. We have no idea what the world would be like without WWII, for all we know, one of the millions killed in that war may have gone on to be a president who actually ordered the launch of a massive nuclear war. Any number of people wouldn't have met each other leaving uncounted people unborn who will go on to do any number of things both good and bad... Nope, I'm going to choose the option that doesn't have the chance of destroying the entire world as we know it instead of just going with the obvious choice without thinking about it

plainsnailing · 17 days

Its for the best. If it had been prevented, then it would have been postponed for only so long, by which point both sides would have fully militarised nuclear detonations. The deaths would have risen higher and we may not have live through it.

k1w1999 · 17 days

Wow only one bar? I feel for ya.

GreyEarth · 17 days

Cant prevent something that's already happened and long over, may as well take the cash, right ?

AshyBooRawrs · 17 days

People chose the money option because they probably need it. (not always the case) WWII was terrible, but it was in the past, and money would be more helpful than preventing a war from decades ago.

BurningMelon · 17 days

Wenn wir nicht Zweiter Weltkrieg, würden wir Deutsch sprechen.

Please don't hate on poor translation; I took Japanese in high school, not German.

Canvasch · 17 days

I would take the money. WWII already happened, and history as we know it could change in weird ways if it suddenly didn't happen. For one thing, I might never have been born.

psychroclasm · 17 days

WWII was a good thing. It ended Hitler's campaign and saved a lot of lives (in the long run).

revjeremyduncan · 17 days

Changing history is a bad idea. Things could wind up worse.

AvatarJack · 17 days

I'd rather not potentially fuck up the world I know.

bobbieluvsya · 17 days

I've seen enough fiction where people change the past and screw shit the hell up. I'll take the money and use that to change the future instead.

cptstupendous · 17 days

OP has not watched enough sci fi.

tclipse · 17 days

It would be different if they said WWIII... I hope.

Fig1024 · 17 days

Preventing WW2 would merely delay WW2. Unless "prevent" means the gift granter would eliminate humanity from face of the earth

97bluelights · 17 days

That's WouldYouRather post #9 today...

spacehamster42 · 17 days

It would have been better to ask about preventing WW3.

MezzaCorux · 17 days

WWII was significant variable in the Civil rights movement, now gimme my money

xpwnagee · 17 days

Sad thing? Probably win a shit ton of money for preventing wwii

DaRabidMonkey · 17 days

Just because WWII wouldn't have happened, it doesn't mean a different second "great war" wouldn't have happened soon after, or at least at some point.

asdrnghuphna · 17 days

The world is currently in a not altogether shitty situation. I would rather have history play out as it did instead of tampering with it.

Besides, what does this entail? Does "avoiding WWII" mean "appease Hitler and let him take over peacefully"? Because it seems quite likely that would just result in the Third Reich still being around.

dasher11 · 17 days

Changing major events in history can have serious repercussions. World War II has shaped our entire-

Ah, fuck it. I pick the money because I'm not a Jew in 1939, I'm a broke college student in 2012!

Kytopia · 17 days

Without WWII My grandparents would have never came here from England and had my mother who met my father who made me! So i choose money

jakemyers7 · 17 days

if there was no world war 2, would that mean we would have let hitler continue his reign?

Mein_Tarnaccount · 17 days

38% are either lying, or already have enough money. 70 years ago, this question would have been a toughy.

qlwest19 · 17 days

Since WWII already happened fuck it I am getting paid.

Slashmonkey · 17 days

If WWII never happened, not only would we have missed out on a huge number of scientific advancements, but there would be roughly 190 million more mouths to feed on this planet.. That's 5.5 times the population of Canada.

lowerletters · 17 days

Two dollars would change my life. I'd have another bag of chips and be a lot happier.

I hope they all get two dollars if that ever happens

Roomy · 17 days

That's a really tough one. Honestly we can never truly know what would've happened if WW2 never happened. I think Fascism might have been an inevitable part of humanity to go through, and I would've never wanted what happened in WW2 to have happened during a time when everyone else had nuclear missiles. Kind of like a Command and Conquer world where the war is just basically postponed and some other country ends up causing it with a militaristic fascist government force, but instead they also have nukes. There's no telling if it could've actually been worse, although it's hard to imagine much worse than what WW2 was...

So I would probably pick the money because I don't want to be responsible with altering time where it could possibly end up worse.

Hawkell · 17 days

Didn't world war II also do a great deal for pulling the world out of the Great Depression? Not to mention the huge push in rocket and computer technology.

Narrenschifff · 17 days

How do you know preventing WWII wouldn't result in an even bigger and more terrible clusterfuck eventually in Europe and Asia? The conditions were ripe. Ripe, I tells ya.

CtrlC_plus_CtrlV · 17 days

I'm with ya if Pokemon were real we could all have one, if super heroes were real only a select few could be one.

Xepher01 · 17 days

How about this?

Duckdestroyer · 17 days

Read up about some of the repercussions of ww2 and where the world would be without it. At the very least a lot of time traveling fiction has covered several interesting scenarios. We don't have to talk about the effects of time traveling, morality of (not) changing things.

I would not want to change anything too far in the past. Without ww2 my grandparents would not have met.

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