I heard the label "bleeding heart libertarian" once. Does that shoe fit?

The reason I keep poking at this is because I agree with so much of the reasoning but not the conclusion. You don't know what the person who's about to kill baby Hitler knows, perhaps they even have this magical geopolitical information.

The point about how they shouldn't do it because they might end up killing the wrong person clearly applies here. Hundreds of little girls were killed by the US military.

I totally agree that we have limited information and more information could change the analysis. I also appreciate how much you focus on incentives and Trump's known behavioral patterns to cool people down.

My position hasn't been that this is obviously going to be a disaster on par with Iraq. I don't think that's far-fetched but my position is much more limited: preemptive strikes that will almost certainly kill innocent people are unjust. In fact, the main difference between that and preemptively killing baby Hitler is that we at least know that baby Hitler ended up killing lots of people.

I do too. I just don't see why it doesn't apply to preemptive military strikes.

Thank you kindly

But then your attitude towards other people killing baby Hitler should be agnostic, no?

I don't know of a better argument than pure hedonism and most people don't want to make that one.

I really think you'd enjoy reading The Wheel of Time