Why didn't Thanos just reduce the fertility rate? [duplicate]
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Thanos' goal is to halve the population, to reduce demand for resources. The best way to kill half the population is to get all six infinity stones; then you can make half of all life just disappear.
But if you have all six infinity stones, you could just reduce the fertility of all species in the galaxy, so that the population gradually falls to half of its original size.
Why does Thanos prefer murder over birth control?
Best Answer
Thanos: When we faced extinction I offered a solution
Dr. Stephen Strange: Genocide?
Thanos: But random, dispassion is fair for rich and poor a like. They called me a mad man. What I predict came unannounced.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Congratulations, you're a prophet
Thanos: I'm a survivor
Dr. Stephen Strange: Who wants to murder trillions
Thanos: With all the six stones I can simply snap my fingers, they will all cease to exist. I call that... mercy.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Then what?
Thanos: finally rest, watch the sunrise on an ungrateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest will.
The key conversation and relevant parts bolded above.
Thanos wants this to be completely random and dispassionate, and he also wants it to be snap-of-the-fingers immediate.
Aside from not being very interesting as a movie plot point, simply affecting people's fertility wouldn't stop the Avengers. Striking people with infertility also isn't truly random - rich people would end up buying/stealing/making legal the practice of taking babies from poor people.
Also, Thanos is a egotistical, delusional maniac - snapping his fingers and having no visible effects for several years doesn't make him look very powerful.
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Did Thanos solve overpopulation?
The theory \u2014 As noted by Redditor IsaiasRi, the most obvious explanation for Thanos' actions \u2014 that he's seeking to wipe out half of all life in order to solve overpopulation, first on his homeworld then across the universe \u2014 is based on Malthusianism, the theory established by English economist Thomas Robert Malthus.Why does Thanos care about overpopulation?
Thanos believes that the universe is overpopulated and that mass starvation will be the result. "It's a simple calculus," he says. "This universe is finite, its resources finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist." In another scene he complains of "too many mouths, not enough to go around".Why Didn't I Listen To Everyone About Him Sooner?!
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Because Thanos is a "doer" not a waiter. Also that's not how population works. After every major "defertilization" (called war of famine) came huge rise in population. So Thanos just want to put a cap on population for ever. Not to check every 20 years "Oh dudes, you made 10 kids to much".
Also Thanos don't kill those trillions. With full gauntlet he can make them never been born. Not like you will loose your girlfriend. Because one of you would never existed in the first place. And force auto spawning cap into every being soul. Think about humans coming to 5 billions on earth and suddenly whole planet decide that we make one child only is ones die.
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