I don't think chemotherapy is genocide
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I would also take the rather less high-minded argument of "play shitty genocidal games, win genocidal prizes." Every one of Thanos' troops was in on a quest to wipe out much of life. Some significant fraction of them were basically mindless drones. They don't get to complain.
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we don't know anything about Thanos' troops, who are portrayed as caricatured mindless monsters, much like orcs in Middle Earth.
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Replying to @nberlat @loudpenitent and
Eh, I'm going to go with "killing the people trying to kill you + trillions of innocents" is okay, even if some of them were conscripts. If we accept the premise of the story, then lethal violence is justified here.
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Replying to @andrewdridgway @nberlat and
I think the angle with Tony's snap specifically would be, "Is lethal violence *still* justified granted the other options that near-infinite power might grant you?" But bearing in mind that he has exactly one shot and very little time to think.
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Replying to @andrewdridgway @nberlat and
Doctor Strange's statement that out of over 14 million scenarios this was the only one that ended in defeat for Thanos heavily implies that any solution less than the utter annihilation of him and his death cult was doomed to failure.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @andrewdridgway and
yes, propagandists often say they have no other choice but to invade Iraq, drop an atom bomb, or muder all the Jews.
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Replying to @nberlat @autogynamelia and
How exactly is killing the Children of Thanos a better metaphor for the Holocaust than for the Nuremberg Trials
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
I mean the Children explicitly aren't a "race" or a "culture" We're explicitly shown this, they're randomly chosen individuals from each of the species Thanos has genocided who get inducted into his army
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
They're all combatants, they're a military They really tried to remove as much moral ambiguity here as they could
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(The Chitauri explicitly WERE presented as a species and/or culture who were all Chaotic Evil Space Orcs and the new idea of the Children of Thanos was a deliberate revision)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Hell, the Chitauri are basically a bunch of cyborgs who might well be reanimated corpses for all we know seeing as they die instantly when the connection to their ship is severed. And the Outriders are mindless engineered flesh-drones.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @nberlat and
As Rocket points out in the deleted scenes, they really aren't a very good army, and they might be the way they are because of the necessary compromises you have to make when raising a military whose political purpose is universal genocide
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