The whole movie really shows Thanos' inability to devise different solutions and his Knight Templar status. He ignores several key failures to his plan. 1. His plan ignores civilizations he's already culled and civilizations that aren't yet in need of culling due to being no where near the starvation point. He may have also drove species extinct that were sparsely populated due to previous disasters. 2. He also ignores who he kills, making it indiscriminate so that it's "fair". He would have killed pilots/drivers/operators of heavy machinery of vehicles causing secondary deaths from the crashes. Due to probability, there would be instances where he killed the pilots and copilots of, say, a jumbo jet, but none of the passengers, effectively dooming everyone on board. He could also end up killing too many of a civilization's food producing cultures like farmers, fishermen, herders, genetic engineers making GMO's, workers for packaging and supplying companies, etc., causing starvation anyways especially for isolated communities. Then caretakers for children, sick, and elderly could die, leaving the helpless without someone to keep them alive. It would also kill doctors during surgery and medical professionals who specialize in rare diseases thus dooming their patients. Finally, he could have killed very powerful people or whole armies leaving civilizations with enormous power vacuums and a whole host of instability problems. 3. The fingersnap also ignores the other consequences like the ensuing panic, riots, and war. 4. The culling does nothing to address inequality, access to resources, classism, greed, or the many other causes of starvation (and honestly, doesn't increase the abundance of resources either). Without someone enforcing equality or redistributing resources, people will starve anyways. This is especially true since Thanos stepped down as emperor and if his own armies were affected by the culling. 5. The culling wouldn't be a permanent fix. Given enough time, each civilization would become overpopulated again and starvation would again become a regular thing. Unless Thanos is immortal, he would need successors to cull the population again with the Infinity stones and hope they didn't abuse their power. It also ignores the fact that each civilization would take a different amount of time to hit the starvation point. 6. In the end, more than half the galaxies population would die unless Thanos could somehow predict the consequences of each and every individual disappearance and plan accordingly to make sure that ONLY half of everyone died. Since he promised to only kill half of survivors of any war he waged, this would make him a Hypocrite. Whether he decided that the additional deaths were somehow necessary or unavoidable, did plan out who he eliminated and how many he eliminated to ensure exactly 50% of each civilization died, showed preference to certain types of enforcers or producers, just ignored the problem, or many other scenarios ensues that he couldn't keep the promise that he made. 7. Finally, he ignores the many other solutions available to him. The most obvious one is using resources from uninhabited areas like dead planets or nebulae to produce the food, materials, and other resources necessary to sustain each civilization as it is without causing problems associated with overpopulation. Heck, even if a planet couldn't sustain any more intelligent life due to some kind of pollution issues or something, he could simply have teleported portions of the civilization to another planet that can sustain life to ensue overconsumption doesn't become a problem either.
Edited by Thecommander236Don't make me destroy you. @ Castle Series
Placing this here to organize my thoughts.
- The whole movie really shows Thanos' inability to devise different solutions and his Knight Templar status. He ignores several key failures to his plan. 1. His plan ignores civilizations he's already culled and civilizations that aren't yet in need of culling due to being no where near the starvation point. He may have also drove species extinct that were sparsely populated due to previous disasters. 2. He also ignores who he kills, making it indiscriminate so that it's "fair". He would have killed pilots/drivers/operators of heavy machinery of vehicles causing secondary deaths from the crashes. Due to probability, there would be instances where he killed the pilots and copilots of, say, a jumbo jet, but none of the passengers, effectively dooming everyone on board. He could also end up killing too many of a civilization's food producing cultures like farmers, fishermen, herders, genetic engineers making GMO's, workers for packaging and supplying companies, etc., causing starvation anyways especially for isolated communities. Then caretakers for children, sick, and elderly could die, leaving the helpless without someone to keep them alive. It would also kill doctors during surgery and medical professionals who specialize in rare diseases thus dooming their patients. Finally, he could have killed very powerful people or whole armies leaving civilizations with enormous power vacuums and a whole host of instability problems. 3. The fingersnap also ignores the other consequences like the ensuing panic, riots, and war. 4. The culling does nothing to address inequality, access to resources, classism, greed, or the many other causes of starvation (and honestly, doesn't increase the abundance of resources either). Without someone enforcing equality or redistributing resources, people will starve anyways. This is especially true since Thanos stepped down as emperor and if his own armies were affected by the culling. 5. The culling wouldn't be a permanent fix. Given enough time, each civilization would become overpopulated again and starvation would again become a regular thing. Unless Thanos is immortal, he would need successors to cull the population again with the Infinity stones and hope they didn't abuse their power. It also ignores the fact that each civilization would take a different amount of time to hit the starvation point. 6. In the end, more than half the galaxies population would die unless Thanos could somehow predict the consequences of each and every individual disappearance and plan accordingly to make sure that ONLY half of everyone died. Since he promised to only kill half of survivors of any war he waged, this would make him a Hypocrite. Whether he decided that the additional deaths were somehow necessary or unavoidable, did plan out who he eliminated and how many he eliminated to ensure exactly 50% of each civilization died, showed preference to certain types of enforcers or producers, just ignored the problem, or many other scenarios ensues that he couldn't keep the promise that he made. 7. Finally, he ignores the many other solutions available to him. The most obvious one is using resources from uninhabited areas like dead planets or nebulae to produce the food, materials, and other resources necessary to sustain each civilization as it is without causing problems associated with overpopulation. Heck, even if a planet couldn't sustain any more intelligent life due to some kind of pollution issues or something, he could simply have teleported portions of the civilization to another planet that can sustain life to ensue overconsumption doesn't become a problem either.
Edited by Thecommander236 Don't make me destroy you. @ Castle Series