So Thanos, can we talk for a moment.
You can not defeat me, Major Logic.
Of course not. Nor do I want to defeat you. I do, however, think you should be informed of the huge con you are falling for.
Con? No one Cons me. I am too smart. Listen to how well I speak English.
Yes. Well, that aside, you are almost certainly being conned.
You intrigue me with your courage. You may speak.
Great. So. Let’s start with the so called Infinity stones. There are 6 of them, I believe?
Yes. Everyone knows this.
And what is the source of this information?
What do you mean?
Well, the stones were created at the beginning of the universe. 6 have been found. How do we know that there are only 6 of them?
Everyone knows there are 6. Ask around. It is common knowledge.
Ok. Think of it this way. The big bang occurs and the stones get thrown out into the Universe.
Yes, for me to find.
Sure. Into the universe randomly, because at the time of the big bang, there was no intelligence in the universe to create non-random.
Ah…. Well…. I am a little uneasy with the no-intelligence thing. My base leans in another direction…
Ok. But thrown out there with great force and violence, probably in different directions.
Which is why they ended up all over the Entire Galaxy !!
Exactly. The Galaxy. Let’s do a thought experiment. Lets say the universe is a sphere and we chop up that sphere into semi-circular slices.
Like one slices up an Apple?
Yes, very good. Like an apple. How many slices would you think we would have to make such that a slice was about the width that would contain our galaxy?
I don’t know that. Quite a few I would think. More than 10.
Oh yes. In fact, I don’t know either, but my experience tells me that no matter what number I choose, the answer is really a lot bigger. Because the universe is so big. So I am going to choose a billion. A billion slices and our Universe would fit in there. In fact, it would just be a grain of sand in this huge thin slice of the universe. Lots of other Galaxys would fit in there also. Millions of other Galaxies.
Can we move this along, please? I see Captain America over there waiting to get punched.
Don’t worry about the Captain, he is very happy to sit there and show off his new beard. My point, however, is that, everything being equal, there is like a one in a Million Billion chance that any stone would end up in our Galaxy. And that number to the 6th power that all would end up in the same Galaxy.
But here they are.
Yes. Which implies that either someone put them here on purpose, which probably means they are fake, or there are a lot more infinity stones than you think. The most likely thing is that they are fake and someone is selling you a bill of goods.
Who?
I don’t know. Who benefits from your actions?
Well, everyone does. Well, half of everyone.
Right. Let’s go there. Your plan is to save life in the Universe by killing half of it. Oh, by the way, this is a little vague, are you going to kill half of all life or just Intelligent life.
Oh, just half the people.
The People? So you have a good definition of what people are?
Sure.
And the stones just take your definition and read your mind and do what you want done?
Yes
That seems very simplistic. But that’s OK. Lets go with that. So you kill half of the People and then the Universe is saved.
Correct.
I don’t know about other worlds but here on earth, the people are humans. Do you know how fast the human race doubles? How fast it would take us to replace the half that you kill?
Ah….. What?
Historically, and I mean for thousands of years, the human race has doubled its population about once every 30 years. 30 years. So if you kill half of us, we will be back to the same huge problem that we have now in just 30 years. Other people on other planets might be a little faster or a little slower. Still, you do all of this nonsense and you buy the Universe around 30 years. Big deal.
But…. But…. I can not fail. I must save the Universe.
Then you need something better than death. Hell, a pandemic and war can bring death. You need to snap your fingers and bring enlightened self interest. You need universal health care and birth control. You need massive health and reproduction education programs. You need people willing to live in a long term sustainable manner.
But…. Those are all common sense. One doesn’t need the infinity stones for those things.
Oh. Wanna bet?
