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GreenKnight127 posted...

I mean, as heartless as the "snap" was.......there is no doubt that there would be CONSIDERABLE benefits to it.

Almost nothing that would actually matter in the short term. Things like reduced emissions leading to less stress on the climate change wouldn't be detectable to anyone other than scientists for decades. Reduced demand for resources wouldn't necessarily be noticeable, because resources would actually grow more scarce to the individual's perspective as the means of distribution fail. You would have situations like in the USSR near the end of the Cold War, where people wait all day on bread lines, while entire massive crops of wheat rot in fields because they can't be harvested or transported properly. Pollution wouldn't clear up overnight - it would improve over time by fractions of degrees, so it would be quite some time before it was noticeable to the naked eye even in the most overcrowded of cities.

Reduced population would be noticeable, and some of the more misanthropic or callous people might be glad that their commute to work is so much less packed now, except for the fact that there's a good chance the subway isn't running any more, and they may not have a job any more, and also their beloved pet disappeared (because the snap didn't just kill humans).

And again, most people probably won't be thinking "Man, now there's a much brighter future for my kids!" when there's at least a 50% chance your kids don't exist any more. Or your significant other doesn't. Or plenty of other people don't, and now you're armed and defending your house with guns because your one neighbor is now looting the houses of everyone who disappeared to stockpile resources for the coming hard times, while there's a cult forming down the street that believes the Rapture has come and those left must now prove themselves worthy of God's love, so they're planning to burn all the non-believers to death.

NO ONE is looking at this as a positive. The normal human response would either be panic or rage.

In a comic book universe, the most likely future scenario is that humans radically devote all of our resources to developing space flight and doomsday weapons and then flood across the galaxy like a plague constantly searching for whoever was responsible so we can vengeance-fuck their entire race into extinction. Along with anyone else who gets in our way.



GreenKnight127 posted...

The planet would be letting out a big sigh of relief.

At least until the general confusion, chaos, and collapse of society eventually leads to incredibly unqualified people getting their hands on nuclear launch codes and firing off a few due to the destabilized political situation and general level of terror.

Humans are at their most destructive when they're panicked. The desperation caused by the snap will likely lead people to become extremely quick to resort to violence to solve most problems. Worse, even once things stabilize (IF they do), knowledge of the new availability of excess resources would likely make us even more proliferate in wasting them than we already are, countering most of the potential benefits almost immediately.

And, of course, then we breed like crazy so in about 2-3 generations from now we're right back to the same population we were at before the catastrophe (it only took us about 40 years to double global population over the last few decades), only now we have reduced animal populations, so in some ways we're WORSE off than we were before.

For anyone who spends time actually thinking about the consequences, there is NOTHING positive about the snap.


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