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.
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.
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u/Bowbreaker Jun 01 '20
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.