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Originally Posted by Itse
He could just as easily have doubled the amount of resources with that snap. Or imbued everyone in the universe, even those not yet born, with a deep understanding of and interest in sustainability. Or just make everyone less materialistic, more cooperative and less fertile. He could literally have done anything else.
What Thanos did was at best setting the clock back a bit. In Earth, the number of resources spent likely got rolled back less than fifty years.
So yeah. Ultimately he was just fixated on killing people. I wouldn't necessarily call it bloodlust though? Maybe more just narrow-mindedness, obsession and megalomania.
In the comics Thanos just wanted to impress the (female) personification of Death who he had the hots for. (It didn't work.) In that story killing half of everyone made more logical sense, although made Thanos more pathetic and less interesting IMO. So I liked this version more. Plus it's obviously more topical.
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Possibly saw it as a just punishment for failing to act on the future? Why reward life of the universe that outcasted him as a psycho and constructs their own destruction with abundance, purely on the back of his sacrifice? Often times it can feel selfishly good to not only win, but to see your enemies in pain.