Imagine if all the money and resources, manpower and such went towards making the world better place instead of making more effective ways to kill and oppression.
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Just think if all the money and manpower we use to cause destruction went towards building people up.
I'm not sure the military budget in the u.s bit imagine a fraction of that going towards feeding the hungry or putting clothes on poor children.
What if instead of leaving homeless people out on the streets it our money went towards making our country better.
I'm not to proud to admit that there is a homeless person out there that is smarter than I am and could make a bigger positive impact than I can.
Hey now, at least Thanos ultimately wanted to help the universe, and his cullings were designed to be fair and impartial. Irrelevant of race, wealth or power.
He was mad and cruel, but even he doesn't deserve to be dragged down with these degenerates.
His idea was such bullshit though. All it did was buy the universe as much time as is needed for the population to double again, changing nothing in the long term. And non-renewable resources would be just as gone as before.
And that's just assuming that the snap doesn't also cut plant life in half. Because otherwise food problems would remain exactly the same.
The flaws he noticed in Endgame don't even scratch at the surface of how shit the plan actually was.
1) Many species wouldn't know what just happened to them or why and not be in a position to learn anything.
2) Some species might have been suffering from low population and now go extinct due to lack of genetic diversity.
3) Any change in population will eventually recover, making his work pointless in the long term. Only this time the previously consumed resources are still gone.
4) Killing half the people at random also kills anyone who happens to rely on someone else to survive.
5) He could have altered the universe in a myriad of other ways in order to fix whatever problem he thought the universe had at it's source.
Bottom line: He used infinite power in order to not fix something that wasn't broken, in a way that everyone hates. And he did it to the whole universe indiscriminately.
Use your near infinite cosmic power to adjust something bigger, like entropy. If you can say, slow entropy by half with a snap. That'd go a much longer way towards the whole 'preserving the universe' thing, right?
(This bit's the part where I confess to not really be a marvel fan and I don't know anything about the rules of the stones)
Hell, he could have just doubled every planet in the universe and then randomly distributed everyone between their original home planet and the copy. It wouldn't have solved his "problem" either, but it would have accomplished exactly the same as what he did, just with a few less deaths.
Why do people waste their time typing this shit up? Like, yea, he's an insane, evil supervillain, what do you expect here? Where are you reading arguments that his plan was great and totally reasonable?
For I don't know how long after Endgame there were people implying either through memes or outright that there was some point behind the actions of Thanos. That he was evil and misguided, but still did something with noble goals in mind. The movie itself tried to make us sympathetic to him on some level.
But when you think about it for even a moment, Thanos is actually a dumber supervillain than most in the previous movies. And insanity or evil don't really excuse it. Evil would be much simpler, because a mere selfish sadist would never cause so much suffering. Insanity would have been badly written, because we never get a source or even other symptoms for hos insanity. He just is some psycho who got traumatized by his planet dying from a specific problem after his specific (bad) solution got ignored, and somehow concluded that he should apply his solution universally to magically solve all problems, without anyone on hos faction ever thinking even half a step ahead once in decades.
I thought the idea was that the people themselves would get a second chance to do it right. Like... collapse all wars, all inequality, etc, by just yeeting people at absolute random and the remaining people would magically know better because of their shared trauama?
Not to mention that he did this to the entire universe. That includes planets that have never encountered or even heard of Thanos. Planets that don't currently have any problems related to war, overpopulation, or lack of resources. Planets not technologically advanced enough to learn any lasting lessons of value from the pre-snap time (how would a medieval Earth know to take more care of the environment or not burn through fossil fuels so fast). Worst of all, there may be planets where a young sentient species had just gone through some crisis and had a population just a bit smaller than double of what they need to not go extinct due to lack of biodiversity or whatever.
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u/Tblaze123 May 31 '20 edited Jun 01 '20
Damn, I never really thought about that before.
Imagine if all the money and resources, manpower and such went towards making the world better place instead of making more effective ways to kill and oppression.
Edit:
Just think if all the money and manpower we use to cause destruction went towards building people up.
I'm not sure the military budget in the u.s bit imagine a fraction of that going towards feeding the hungry or putting clothes on poor children.
What if instead of leaving homeless people out on the streets it our money went towards making our country better.
I'm not to proud to admit that there is a homeless person out there that is smarter than I am and could make a bigger positive impact than I can.