Just suppose

[ritaxis]

You're a German in 1932, and you have some prescience.

What should you be doing?

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[infernarl.livejournal.com]

Are we assuming the individual is anti-(future)-government?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Consider who asked you the question. Of course I'm assuming you're not in favor of the Nazis.

I'm also taking as given that the killing of Jews was not about the killing of Jews. So that when we're looking at history, we're not just interested in the names of which people were at which end of the knife, or which people were at which end of the whip, but the processes that put them in their positions.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

And that bit "the killing of Jews was not about the killing of Jews" so doesn't express what I meant to say. Which is that genocide isn't a Jew thing -- remember I say this as a Jew -- it's a political thing. And genocide is not the only thing to worry about in 1932. And that preventing the other things most likely prevents genocide too.

[infernarl.livejournal.com]

Ok, so the person is not a nazi. They still might do something selfish. Leaving would be selfish. Or investing in the defense industry.