I was talking to someone who said they wished they could go back to the past and kill Hitler. While a reasonable suggestion because of the amount of people who suffered, I thought it was strange. Obviously, the classic response should be "That would change the future for now, so you might not be able to have gone back there in the first place and therefore may not be able to come back to the present." While this is true, it is a thought which has been thought of for years, making it not much of a revelation.
As I thought more about the concept, I thought about killing Hitler in order to save the Jews killed. I realized that this act would only benefit myself, as everyone else in the present would think that none of the Jews were ever killed. This means that killing Hitler would not help the people of today, because there is nothing to have been lost.
The people of today have already felt the pain and it cannot be taken back. In that train of thought, everything that has happened in the present has already happened. This means that time cannot exist in a linear fashion, because we are therefore living in the future.
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