If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?
If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?
Would they have all still fought against him?
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Can we please not hypothesise about eugenics and people's reactions to eugenics, with the current global climate?
Entertaining how to react to fictional atrocities is useful in shaping our real-world responses to actual atrocities.
Entertaining for the people who are certain that they're not a member of an arbitrarily defined group. Whether their certainty is well-placed is a different problem, I guess.
I'm using the word entertaining as a verb. It's a synonym of considering.
My mistake, I misread.
I agree that discussion is important in deciding responses, but discussions like these are also used as testing grounds for gauging acceptability. It's how places like 'active clubs' recruit and promote far-right extremism, they start with gauging the response to lower-level discrimination and slowly escalate to larger acts.
I don't want to live in a world where we can't engage in thought experiments.
And I'm sick of living in a world where thought experiments are used to casually label people as dumb, disposable, but they're ok because they mention superheroes and that makes the whole thing outlandish. Until the atrocities occur, again and then it's "why didn't someone do something sooner?".
OP didn't perform a snap. No one irl did.
You have to be able to discuss hypotheticals if you want to know what kind of person you are.
The fact that this hypothetical makes you uncomfortable is ok, it just means you have compassion and that's valid.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't participate. I'm sure Steve Rogers felt the same way. He participated.
Pls touch grass