Matt Ford, an associate news editor at The Atlantic, in his article “The Ethics of Baby Hitler” (2015) contends that even if he were given permission, he would not kill Hitler as a baby, maintaining that eradication of Hitler not only would violate his morals but also might change the course of history. He begins with The New York Times Magazine poll surveying whether its readers would kill Hitler as a baby to then start developing his stance that he would not; in following paragraphs, Ford compares this question to a similar ethical dilemma, “the trolley problem,” and provides other, more ethical solutions to prevent Hitler’s ascendancy to power; finally, he discusses that it is likely that the German political ideologies would have generated