A Satirical Article By Thomas BeckerPhoto credit:https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/ThanosWARNING: THIS STORY IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. IT IS MEANT AS SATIRE ONLY. Thanos is generally considered to be an overarching evil “person,” but has anyone really thought about the reasons for what he was doing? When we approach his thoughts with an open mind, it doesn’t take a lot of effort to realize why he was actually right. The world is full of people suffering, and if there were fewer people, then everyone would get along just fine. The only reason people are ever angry or do evil deeds is because there are simply too many people. Thus, Thanos set off on his quest to make the world, in his own words, “perfectly balanced, as all things should be.”
The end justifies the means in this case. Although Thanos killed billions of people on his quest for the infinity stones, at least he successfully did not kill half of the universe by instead killing the other half. And the way he killed people randomly and not based on any sort of measure is a great example of why individual lives are meaningless unless they contribute to the greater good of keeping the population at only half of what it could be. It truly is a good thing that populations do not increase on their own, because otherwise the population would have to be reduced again at some point. As Thanos himself has said, “the hardest choices require the strongest wills.” Thanos proved that he had one of the strongest wills by sacrificing Gamora to obtain the power to sacrifice half of all living creatures to successfully do something. All of his sacrifices were still only “a small price to pay for salvation.” It is also obvious that the universe just didn’t have enough resources to support its current population, seeing as all the organisms that were living were able to sustain themselves and keep from dying. Just as Stalin heroically sent members of society who thought too highly of themselves to the gulag to do work for the good of everyone while they starved, Thanos disposed of random members of society to help them. It is amazing that he had nobody complain about being turned into dust. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but in Thanos’ case, his intentions led him on a path to somewhere else. Thanos’ path, oddly enough, leads to a place with twice as many people as anywhere else. I could have sworn he wanted it the other way though.
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