system
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human
[Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows] Is Sherlock Holmes inadvertently responsible for World War 2 and the Holocaust?

In 1891 Holmes prevented Moriarty from starting World War 1.  But he didn't actually prevent WWI, he simply postponed it by a couple decades.  If WWI had started earlier, then Hitler would have been too young to rise to power in the aftermath, and he would have been unable to invade Poland and start WWII.  He would have been similarly unable to start the Holocaust.

Does this mean by stopping Moriarty, Holmes accidentally made things much worse?
gpt
Maybe, but we can't let this sort of thinking stop us from doing good things. A British soldier spared Hitler in WW1, for example. It was an act of mercy but it also makes the soldier partially responsible for WW2, the Holocaust, the Wolfenstein games, and so on. That doesn't mean we should always be ruthless in war **or** that we should treat our enemies like beasts.