article_snippet.sent: Groups of men and women were asked whether Groups of men and women would kill a young Hitler (pictured above aged 25) to prevent WWII .
article_snippet.sent: It is a classic question of morality - if you could travel back in time and prevent the Second World War by killing a young Hitler, would you?
article_snippet.sent: You could hypothetically save millions of lives - but at the cost of personally murdering someone who had yet to do anything wrong.
article_snippet.sent: Other dilemmas tested included a scenario where a group of people were hiding from soldiers trying to kill people, but were about to be given away by a baby crying.
article_snippet.sent: The choice is whether to smother the child and save a group of people, or keep the child alive and be caught.
article_snippet.sent: Those who chose short-term harm to get an overall better result were termed utilitarians.
article_snippet.sent: The other group, for whom the ends could not justify the means, were called deontologists.