These types of people never do. They always want people to sacrifice things for the greater good, but always have an excuse when it comes to themselves.
That was mainstream acceptable opinion on reddit back when the movie came out. Even IRL I'd occasionally hear people talking about "Hey do you think Thanos was justified?"
To be fair I think it's mainly because people are simpletons who can be moved to empathize with any well written character. (or hate any villain they are told to hate, with the right combination of music and pathos) I follow Cyberpunk 2077 videos and there's always comments from people who are big fans of Johnny Silverhand - a guy who set off a suitcase nuke in downtown killing tens of thousands of innocent people.
I probably should have explained, but didn't think anyone here would care and honestly don't think it matters considering the result. :)
What supposedly happened is complicated and not much backstory is given in the PC game. Militech+NUSA hatched the plan to destroy Arasaka HQ in Night City, and Silverhand just went along with attack team to 1. Save his girlfriend who was imprisoned there, and 2. Stick it to The Man, the man being Arasaka - one of the evil corpos of the Cyberpunk universe. It's debatable whether he had anything personally to do with the nuke itself, since he was in another part of the building, and other people were in charge of the detonation. Maybe Arasaka spread the rumor about him being the primary attacker because they needed a villain. But most players in love with Johnny don't know all those details. He's just "the rocker who blew up Arasaka and he totally acts like an asshole at first but he's just misunderstood and really sweet once you get to know him".
Cameron’s comments to Time came during a discussion about the production on Avatar: The Way of Water switching to catered vegan food so they wouldn’t be seen as hypocritical when lecturing oil companies.
He may be a cunt, but at least he's poisoning himself.
I can guarantee you the vegan food traveled all over the world and used up ten times more resources for manufacture and transport than burgers from local-ish ingredients would.
Now, in some massive coincidence, there's exactly twice as many people as there is resources, across all reality.
I could double the amount of resources... Or I could make people use half the resources they currently do... OR... I could kill half the population in a random sample of convenience that will, statistically, take out entire planets of life when through chance all their farmers and doctors poof, and will undo itself in approximately 20 years.
Anyone who supports Thanos' braindead plan, is braindead in turn.
statistically, take out entire planets of life when through chance all their farmers and doctors poof
And pilots, as shown when a helicopter crashes at the end of Infinity War. Both Spider-Man and the Black Widow movies show when the Snap was undone people reappeared where they vanished. So that helicopter pilot appears dozens of feet up in the air.
Now consider anyone on a commercial plane. Or driving something on a road. Or operating industrial scale machinary.
There was a TV show some years back where the entire world "blacks out" for a few minutes and visions of the future are seen. Those couple of minutes would be more than enough for many people to crash, damage, and outright destroy what they were doing in many cases and this holds true in the MCU, again as shown by the helicopter - as well as all the other cars that crash.
Then there is the social cost. Suicides will have happened. Does undoing the Snap undo those as well?
Start with yourself.
These types of people never do. They always want people to sacrifice things for the greater good, but always have an excuse when it comes to themselves.
It’s actually a terrible answer, what appens when the population recovers back to what it was, do you just collect all the stones and snap again?
The Eternals movie retcons this.
he destroyed the stones so nobody could undo his damage
Have you seen the birth rates? Thanos will die of old age before it even reaches halfway to that.
Thanos snaps but nobody notices because it only hits Africa and Asia.
The good ending
That was mainstream acceptable opinion on reddit back when the movie came out. Even IRL I'd occasionally hear people talking about "Hey do you think Thanos was justified?"
To be fair I think it's mainly because people are simpletons who can be moved to empathize with any well written character. (or hate any villain they are told to hate, with the right combination of music and pathos) I follow Cyberpunk 2077 videos and there's always comments from people who are big fans of Johnny Silverhand - a guy who set off a suitcase nuke in downtown killing tens of thousands of innocent people.
Isn't it because that character is played by Keanu Reeves?
That is certainly a strong factor.
Raul Julia actually seemed believable and even right during the Street Fighter movie.
I probably should have explained, but didn't think anyone here would care and honestly don't think it matters considering the result. :)
What supposedly happened is complicated and not much backstory is given in the PC game. Militech+NUSA hatched the plan to destroy Arasaka HQ in Night City, and Silverhand just went along with attack team to 1. Save his girlfriend who was imprisoned there, and 2. Stick it to The Man, the man being Arasaka - one of the evil corpos of the Cyberpunk universe. It's debatable whether he had anything personally to do with the nuke itself, since he was in another part of the building, and other people were in charge of the detonation. Maybe Arasaka spread the rumor about him being the primary attacker because they needed a villain. But most players in love with Johnny don't know all those details. He's just "the rocker who blew up Arasaka and he totally acts like an asshole at first but he's just misunderstood and really sweet once you get to know him".
Malthusian morons abound.
He may be a cunt, but at least he's poisoning himself.
I can guarantee you the vegan food traveled all over the world and used up ten times more resources for manufacture and transport than burgers from local-ish ingredients would.
Don't forget the displacement that happens like with orangutans and palm oil.
Reality can be whatever I want...
Now, in some massive coincidence, there's exactly twice as many people as there is resources, across all reality.
I could double the amount of resources... Or I could make people use half the resources they currently do... OR... I could kill half the population in a random sample of convenience that will, statistically, take out entire planets of life when through chance all their farmers and doctors poof, and will undo itself in approximately 20 years.
Anyone who supports Thanos' braindead plan, is braindead in turn.
And pilots, as shown when a helicopter crashes at the end of Infinity War. Both Spider-Man and the Black Widow movies show when the Snap was undone people reappeared where they vanished. So that helicopter pilot appears dozens of feet up in the air.
Now consider anyone on a commercial plane. Or driving something on a road. Or operating industrial scale machinary.
There was a TV show some years back where the entire world "blacks out" for a few minutes and visions of the future are seen. Those couple of minutes would be more than enough for many people to crash, damage, and outright destroy what they were doing in many cases and this holds true in the MCU, again as shown by the helicopter - as well as all the other cars that crash.
Then there is the social cost. Suicides will have happened. Does undoing the Snap undo those as well?
James Cameron should be first in line to be euthanized.
how? he had no imagination. that's why he's the bad guy. he gets the powers of god and his only solution is to delete half of all life?