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@"baileym43" I disagree.
I realize thought that I was mistaken about something. Thanos never says he will destroy half of all life in the universe. He only refers to the population, saying things like "When I'm done, half of humanity will still exist". The other characters say he destroys half of life, Gamora says half of all life, but,
1) So far Thanos does not have the stones and "killing half of life" always meant going planet by planet and killing half the population, and
2) The characters refer to "all life" as all species of intelligent life that, in Thanos's view, always consumes and tips off the balance of the universe. All intelligent life are not humans, and specifying it as "all species of intelligent life" is redundant, so they refer to the population as "life".
The end showing half of the cast fading away and not any of the plantlife, as you said, supports this. This is my interpretation and what I see in the movie supports it. It all makes sense to me.
I haven't seen the Thanos analysis video.
There is nothing in the movie that supports the evidence that the stones can create stuff from nothing. They can change things or make convincing illusions with the Reality Stone as seen in Knowhere, but nothing that supports creation from nothing. I don't think they can even clone stuff, make food-bearing plants to produce twice as much, because that's still creating more from nothing. Like, there's one seed, right? You can't make it two out of nowhere. Rocks are also finite. And while yes, reducing fertility rates by half would help,
1) The fact is that overpopulation exists now, and the universe is arguably in chaos. He has to fix this.
2) After he succeeded killing half of people, even if he did reduce fertility afterwards, that would be messing with nature, and regardless of that (because sacrifices have to be made, I'm ignoring that argument), fertility is also not permanent. However slowly the population rises there will be a time eventually when the population reaches to an overpopulated point again. An heir to Thanos then must take the gauntlet and do it again.
Stopping reproduction altogether would this time unbalance the universe on the other tipping point. This time everyone dies of old age, life no longer exists, plantlife/animals exist for nothing. Chaotic wild existence.
There is no other way. Thanos must kill half of all life. Mad, of course, but he doesn't realize all good things must come to an end, even intelligent life. He doesn't realize that eventually different intelligent life might rise again in the future. Such is the cycle of life. Then again, is it saving life if you kill half of all live to save the rest, or saving everyone but for everyone to eventually fall due to chaos? These questions that make you think is why Thanos is a great villain, and the fact that we are arguing this is proof of that. Sure you can nitpick, find miniscule holes (which have easy explanations like I give by the way), but at the end of the day it's about the motivation and effect of the villain and not the itty bitty details.
I realize thought that I was mistaken about something. Thanos never says he will destroy half of all life in the universe. He only refers to the population, saying things like "When I'm done, half of humanity will still exist". The other characters say he destroys half of life, Gamora says half of all life, but,
1) So far Thanos does not have the stones and "killing half of life" always meant going planet by planet and killing half the population, and
2) The characters refer to "all life" as all species of intelligent life that, in Thanos's view, always consumes and tips off the balance of the universe. All intelligent life are not humans, and specifying it as "all species of intelligent life" is redundant, so they refer to the population as "life".
The end showing half of the cast fading away and not any of the plantlife, as you said, supports this. This is my interpretation and what I see in the movie supports it. It all makes sense to me.
I haven't seen the Thanos analysis video.
asterixsmeagol said:Who's to say that the magic stones can't create things from thin air? But even if they can't, he could alter all food-bearing plants to produce twice as much per acre, or adjust the metabolisms of everything to be reduced by half. Or he could transform rock into food, or reduce the fertility rates by half to reduce the population by half over the course of one generation.
There is nothing in the movie that supports the evidence that the stones can create stuff from nothing. They can change things or make convincing illusions with the Reality Stone as seen in Knowhere, but nothing that supports creation from nothing. I don't think they can even clone stuff, make food-bearing plants to produce twice as much, because that's still creating more from nothing. Like, there's one seed, right? You can't make it two out of nowhere. Rocks are also finite. And while yes, reducing fertility rates by half would help,
1) The fact is that overpopulation exists now, and the universe is arguably in chaos. He has to fix this.
2) After he succeeded killing half of people, even if he did reduce fertility afterwards, that would be messing with nature, and regardless of that (because sacrifices have to be made, I'm ignoring that argument), fertility is also not permanent. However slowly the population rises there will be a time eventually when the population reaches to an overpopulated point again. An heir to Thanos then must take the gauntlet and do it again.
Stopping reproduction altogether would this time unbalance the universe on the other tipping point. This time everyone dies of old age, life no longer exists, plantlife/animals exist for nothing. Chaotic wild existence.
There is no other way. Thanos must kill half of all life. Mad, of course, but he doesn't realize all good things must come to an end, even intelligent life. He doesn't realize that eventually different intelligent life might rise again in the future. Such is the cycle of life. Then again, is it saving life if you kill half of all live to save the rest, or saving everyone but for everyone to eventually fall due to chaos? These questions that make you think is why Thanos is a great villain, and the fact that we are arguing this is proof of that. Sure you can nitpick, find miniscule holes (which have easy explanations like I give by the way), but at the end of the day it's about the motivation and effect of the villain and not the itty bitty details.