[ WP ] A court that prosecutes time travelling criminals is once again charging someone for the attempted murder of Adolf Hitler .

“ Hello everyone, today we are gathered in this court for the trial of Mr. Andersen. Case number TTAM 95184-1175: time-travelling attempt of murder on Adolf Hitler. As you may know, the rules are clear about time-travelling: nobody is allowed to modify past in any way or by any mean. You tried to overpass those rules Mr. Andersen, what do you have to say for your defense? 
 
 -Well your Honor, my client had the best intentions in the world. He wanted to avoid the greatest evil of the 20th century to rise and make such a big genocide. 
 
 -That ’ s forbidden to alter the past because you can ’ t predict the consequences. 
 
 -Indeed your Honor, but my client has a point in his reasoning: if Hitler didn ’ t access power, the WWII wouldn ’ t happen, if the WWII didn ’ t happen, then the Jews wouldn ’ t be dead in such a horrible number, all the soldiers wouldn ’ t be dead too, and we wouldn ’ t have invented the nuclear bomb. The cold war wouldn ’ t have happened because Germany would still be a single country and the race for armament wouldn ’ t have happened. Moreover, we wouldn ’ t have created Israel and the middle-east would have been a more peaceful place to live. 
 
 -Do you have any ideas how this could be dangerous to think that way? Do you know the principle of 4th dimension? The dimension of choices? 
 
 -Yes you Honor, and maybe my client does too but we don ’ t see why you ’ re talking about that. 
 
 -Because it ’ s all that matters. If you change one thing in the past, you can make a divergence in the possible futures, and you have no idea which one you could end up. That ’ s why if you go in the past, you have to take a sterilized suit to avoid bringing new diseases to early, you must be invisible and inaudible too to avoid the people to see you, little story short: you can observe but not interact. 
 
 -Yes your Honor, we understand that, but my client had good intentions so it can only bring peace to the world. 
 
 -No, your client wanted to avoid WWII, fine, but the world was tense already, and killing Hitler may have provoked the WWII anyway, or even worse, a nuclear war during the Cold War, do you have anything to add to your defense? 
 
 -No your honor, that ’ s all we had to say. 
 
 -Fine, I ’ ll let the court decide of your fate. ” 

