Quote (jadeoshbogosh @ May 1 2018 02:13pm)
"Wanting to kill half the population" and understanding that we've already grown to an unsustainable population and knowing that some form of drastic correction is unavoidable are two WAY different things. Thanos doesn't want to kill people (at least not the movie version of Thanos), he's just doing what he feels is necessary to make life thrive. You can disagree with his methods or reasoning (or me agreeing with this as being the best/easiest solution), but not understanding the difference between the two things I mentioned above makes me worry that you're not capable of continuing this conversation. I'm not saying that you definitely are, nor am I trying to insult you in any way, just saying that you gotta be able to at least understand the difference between the ends for the sake of the means to have a conversation on the subject.
e: Even if the population stayed exactly where it is now for the next 100 years, which would take a level of enforcement and global cooperation that is not even remotely possible in the world we live in, we'd still be depleting our resources at an unsustainable rate. The earth has always corrected population and resource depletion by wiping out large amounts of the populous with disease, natural disasters, or by letting humans simply succumb to their baser instincts of killing one another. With the mass advancements in technology, medicine, and weaponry, we've gotten to a point where only small numbers of people are dying in comparison to the past, we're consuming at an unprecedented rate, we're living longer than ever before, we're able to avoid or recover from most horrific natural disasters, and we're not wiping each other out in mass; since that would mean nuclear war, which could potentially eradicate all life. The world is in a dire position, and while you or your children may not be suffering, it won't be long until life will be unbearable for everyone here but the super rich. While this is a horrible way to go about fixing the problem, it would fix the problem, and we'd just need to repeat the process every 100 years or so until we figure out a way to travel faster than light and inhabit other livable planets. Even then though, any other planet with sustainable life is going to have people already there. We'll just be spreading from planet to planet wiping out the indigenous people and why should they die so we can live, shouldn't we both just die in equal numbers?
Bravo.
Would you volunteer to be the executioner?