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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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
(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 @arthur_affect and
Avengers Ultron shows Thanos engineering a cyborg slave revolt, yes? Cyborgs/robot narratives have a difficult history as well...
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Replying to @nberlat @loudpenitent and
Thanos isn't in that movie until the stinger If your interpretation here is that Ultron was being controlled by Thanos or acting on his behalf I think that's a stretch
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Maybe a stretch implied by said stinger, but you know They put those in for continuity's sake but they often don't really work with the rest of the movie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Also bluntly, Ultron is not a cybernetic slave revolt. It's one program, explicitly malfunctioning and sort of broken, immediately trying to Smartbrain its way out of human wickedness, disseminated across many, many drone bodies.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @nberlat and
It's not a very compelling story for that exactly that reason There is no ambiguity over whether Ultron's actions have any moral justification, there's not even any easily comprehensible pain to empathize with He just wakes up and immediately goes evil
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