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ParanoidObsessive 12/20/18 8:51:13 PM #19:	Mead posted... kangolcone posted... Mead posted... Kill enough and they start calling you a conqueror, rather than a murderer. Not by those you conquered. They dont write the history books "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." GreenKnight127 posted... I actually really hope in Endgame they have the balls to show some scenes where people around the world are actually kinda impressed and thankful for what Thanos did. Or at least acknowledging the up-side to some degree. If they did it would make absolutely zero sense, because there are about a dozen people on Earth max who actually know what happened and why, and none of them are likely to tell everyone else. No one is going to be praising Thanos specifically. And to the average person, the "decimation" is absolutely terrifying and horrific. Not only did most people lose at least one person who was extremely close to them (so person tragedy is a thing for pretty much everyone), but you're also dealing with the absolute terror of not knowing WHY or HOW it happened, and thus living in constant fear that it might happen again. What if another few hundred million people vanish tomorrow? Will you be one of them? If your family survived the last time around, will they go next time? Plus... GreenKnight127 posted... Maybe TVs in the background with a journalist talking about how there are no more food shortages around the world. How traffic has dramatically decreased. People in Hong Kong can see the stars in the sky at night for the first time in 100 years. War and conflict dramatically decreased. Pollution at an all time low. Trees growing in places where trees never grew. Newscasters would probably be far more inclined to talk about how nearly every aspect of the world's infrastructure is at the edge of collapse and all of human civilization is on the brink of total ruin. Imagine everything that needs to happen to keep the modern industrialized world running. Now imagine all of the people whose job it is to accomplish those tasks are simply gone. You may not even have newscasts, because half the people running the TV station are gone. Worse, since the decimation didn't guarantee that only the superfluous half of the population are gone, you might have scenarios where literally everyone who can work a transmitter are part of the missing 50%. It's worse than that, though. Westerners don't realize just how many delicate systems need to continue working to keep us all alive, and how utterly fucked we all are if those systems fail. General power outages are almost a certainty. Transport of vital goods likely fails, causing food and fuel shortages. Medical treatment becomes more difficult. General infrastructure support and repair likely fails. Law enforcement suffers from disorganization and lack of manpower, while riots flourish. And because the effect is universal, there is no outside force to send aid to help those in need, because everyone is in need. Thanos made 50% of the population disappear, but a hell of a lot more than that would die shortly thereafter. At best, you're looking at a martial law scenario where it takes months (or years) to recover. At worst, you're looking at a Mad Max future where most technological nations revert back to tribal barbarism. Think Walking Dead, just without the zombies. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:914471690] in Thanos... [t:77316969]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote><cite>kangolcone posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>Kill enough and they start calling you a conqueror, rather than a murderer.</quote> Not by those you conquered.</quote> They dont write the history books </quote> "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." <cite>GreenKnight127 posted...</cite> <quote>I actually really hope in Endgame they have the balls to show some scenes where people around the world are actually kinda impressed and thankful for what Thanos did. Or at least acknowledging the up-side to some degree.</quote> If they did it would make absolutely zero sense, because there are about a dozen people on Earth max who actually know what happened and why, and none of them are likely to tell everyone else. No one is going to be praising Thanos specifically. And to the average person, the "decimation" is absolutely terrifying and horrific. Not only did most people lose at least one person who was extremely close to them (so person tragedy is a thing for pretty much everyone), but you're also dealing with the absolute terror of not knowing WHY or HOW it happened, and thus living in constant fear that it might happen again. What if another few hundred million people vanish tomorrow? Will you be one of them? If your family survived the last time around, will they go next time? Plus... <cite>GreenKnight127 posted...</cite> <quote>Maybe TVs in the background with a journalist talking about how there are no more food shortages around the world. How traffic has dramatically decreased. People in Hong Kong can see the stars in the sky at night for the first time in 100 years. War and conflict dramatically decreased. Pollution at an all time low. Trees growing in places where trees never grew.</quote> Newscasters would probably be far more inclined to talk about how nearly every aspect of the world's infrastructure is at the edge of collapse and all of human civilization is on the brink of total ruin. Imagine everything that needs to happen to keep the modern industrialized world running. Now imagine all of the people whose job it is to accomplish those tasks are simply gone. You may not even have newscasts, because half the people running the TV station are gone. Worse, since the decimation didn't guarantee that only the superfluous half of the population are gone, you might have scenarios where literally everyone who can work a transmitter are part of the missing 50%. It's worse than that, though. Westerners don't realize just how many delicate systems need to continue working to keep us all alive, and how utterly fucked we all are if those systems fail. General power outages are almost a certainty. Transport of vital goods likely fails, causing food and fuel shortages. Medical treatment becomes more difficult. General infrastructure support and repair likely fails. Law enforcement suffers from disorganization and lack of manpower, while riots flourish. And because the effect is universal, there is no outside force to send aid to help those in need, because everyone is in need. Thanos made 50% of the population disappear, but a hell of a lot more than that would die shortly thereafter. At best, you're looking at a martial law scenario where it takes months (or years) to recover. At worst, you're looking at a Mad Max future where most technological nations revert back to tribal barbarism. Think Walking Dead, just without the zombies. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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