Is Thanos actually good? [closed]

I know it seems crazy, but anyway I'll ask. In the middle of Infinity war, Thanos beats Guardians and teleports with Gamora. After that, they had a conversation:

Gamora: I was a child when you took me.

Thanos: I saved you.

Gamora: No, no, we were happy on my home planet.

Thanos: Going to bed hungry, scrounging for scraps? Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I was the one who stopped that. You know what's happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It's a paradise.

So, Thanos spends his time, trying to make world better?

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Yes [but no].
Thanos thinks he is doing 'a good thing'.
He thinks he is trying to save the Universe from over-population.

He is simply going about it the wrong way.

His thought process^[1]...

If you halve the population, you have half the people consuming all the resources....

ermm... wrong

If you suddenly halve the population you get

panic
not enough people in the right jobs to get the food to the people
assuming those survivors, who may have randomly lost spouses/children, survive not only that heartbreak and the collapse of civilisation as they know it, and start to reproduce as though nothing happened - or even at intense rate because of perceived under-population - you will be back at square one inside a century.

#FAIL

We, of course, don't know yet how his plan will backfire - but unless they're going to permanently wipe out half the Marvel Cinematic Universe [^{_{no spoilers}}], then backfire it must.

^{[1] which is, of course, the thought process of every 'eebil megalomaniac', real or imaginary, since time began}

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Is Thanos actually the good guy?

GOOD - His Actions Were Selfless Thanos suffered just as intensely as the people left behind in the aftermath of the Blip. He sacrificed Gamora on Vormir to acquire the Soul Stone, giving up the only person he ever truly loved to try and aid the rest of the galaxy.

Can Thanos actually snap?

And was it possible for Thanos to snap while wearing the giant glove? The answer is no, according to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface this week. The team took a close look to explain the friction and other mechanics of snapping fingers.

Did Thanos do the right thing?

Well, as Eternals reveals, when Thanos snapped his finger and wiped out half of all life in the universe, that set back the Celestials plans. All of a sudden, there wasn't enough intelligent life to power the growth of new Celestials. That means Thanos essentially saved the Earth from potential doom.

Why is Thanos so mean?

Thanos can be called evil not because his intentions were evil. They were not. He is evil because he just refuses to engage with the idea about what consequences his action \u2013 of snapping his finger and wiping out half the population \u2013 would actually have, especially for those who have been left behind.

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