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aHappySacka posted...

This is as dumb as the argument that Thanos could just double all the resources of the current universe, both violate the same the law of conservation of mass.

When you have an artifact that literally gives you the power of a God, there's no such thing as "laws". When Thanos wears the Gauntlet, "conservation of mass" only exists if he wants it to exist.

Definitely by the bounds of the Gauntlet in the comics, it would be entirely plausible to double the amount of resources in the universe or to create entire new universes (especially since Marvel is already a multiverse with a near-infinite number of universes existing in parallel as is).

In the movie setting, the only real plausible argument why Thanos wouldn't necessarily think to create new resources rather than eliminating people is because he assumes more resources would just lead people to breed even more, until the population stabilizes again and the same problem starts all over again.

But the thing to keep in mind is, Thanos in the movies is also kind of a broken individual carrying around a lot of backstory emotional damage, so it's not as if he's thinking 100% rationally in his solution regardless. He's just latched onto what he considers to be the only viable solution, and is single-mindedly pursuing it without really considering other options.

If anything, the fact that all of the heroes just assume he's a villain by default and never even remotely try to reason with him or understand his point-of-view means he's never really presented with any viable alternatives anyway. Maybe if the Avengers had tried to talk to him rather than just punch him into submission, they could have stopped him from doing what he did.


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