"Before the resources are exhausted, we take the initiative to eliminate part of the population." Thanos said.
"What!" Many people were shocked.
One person even got up in arms and angrily shouted: "Killing your own people, Thanos, are you kidding me?"
Thanos looked at him: "Then what do you think? If we don't actively reduce the population, we will be extinct within a hundred years. By then, not only some of us will die, but all of us."
Not to be outdone, the man said: "No matter what, we cannot swing the butcher knife at our own people!"
"So you don't have any great ideas?" Thanos said.
The man paused.
Thanos immediately snorted: "Hmph, don't criticize without suggestions, otherwise it will only make you look stupid."
"You say I'm stupid?" the man asked angrily.
"Yes." Thanos admitted simply, while staring at him coldly.
"you!"
Kronos knocked on the table: "Quiet."
The hall finally returned to some silence, but someone still said: "I don't agree with this proposal, it's simply ridiculous."
Kronos also said: "Thanos, your proposal just now is indeed ill-considered..."
"Does this need to be considered?" Thanos asked unconvincedly, "Does anyone want to choose the former between total extinction and partial extinction?"
He looked around and said, "Of course you can refute my proposal, but you should refute it with a better proposal instead of such childish and worthless complaints as "This is too cruel" and "It's simply ridiculous."
.”
One person said hesitantly: "We can limit the use of resources..."
"We are already very restrained." Thanos looked at him, "Of course everyone sitting here doesn't feel it, but the lives of most people have already been hovering at the subsistence line."
"No matter how frugal the current situation is, it will not help. If the Eternal Gods want to avoid annihilation, they can only eliminate part of the population first."
Kronos looked at him: "Which part of the tribe do you plan to destroy?"
"Random." Thanos said, "I designed a plan that can ensure the fairness of the entire process. Everyone decides life and death with equal probability."
"...Those chosen by death can pass away quietly by taking medicine instead of being brutally killed by famine and war in the future. Our race can also continue. This is the best plan and the only plan other than destruction.
.”
Dozens of people looked at each other but said nothing.
Thanos looked at Kronos: "Grandpa?"
Kronos was silent for a moment, but finally shook his head: "Let's control resources first... From today on, everyone in the clan will be distributed living supplies according to the minimum standards."
"Okay, everyone, please go back."
After saying that, he stood up first and left the hall, and everyone dispersed, leaving Thanos alone.
Thanos sat alone in the room, silent for a long time, until evening, and finally had no choice but to leave silently.
The hall is quite splendid, but as soon as you come out, you can't walk far, and all you can see is various scenes of decay.
The buildings in disrepair, dilapidated roads and bridges... and the dark sky as the background of all this, it is almost an apocalyptic scene.
In the distant horizon, a red sun slowly sets, making the sky darker.
"Thanos."
Thanos turned his head when he heard the sound, and then showed a rare smile: "Sehira, long time no see."
Behind him was a beautiful woman with short black hair. She walked over and asked with a smile: "Did you just go to the meeting? What did they talk about?"
Thanos sighed: "No, nothing was discussed, there was no progress, they rejected my plan."
"What's your plan?" Cecila asked.
Thanos said slowly: "In another hundred or two hundred years at most, Titan's resources will be exhausted. The only thing we can do now is to avoid the worst outcome and eliminate part of the population in advance to ensure that the Eternal Gods will not become extinct.
This is exactly my plan."
Cecila was silent.
Thanos waited for a few seconds, and then couldn't help but look directly at her face, but he saw expressions similar to those of most people in the hall before.
This made him clenched his fists. He was deeply disappointed and a little angry: "Don't you agree with my plan?"
"This... is too cruel." Saisheila lowered her head and said.
Her words made Thanos's expression turbulent, and it took him a long time to regain his composure.
Thanos took a deep breath: "There is a similar problem circulating in most civilizations in the universe, generally known as the "Trolley Problem."
"What does the trolley problem mean?" Cecila obviously hadn't heard of it.
Sanos continued: "There was a tram running along the track, and its controls malfunctioned, so it could only turn but could not stop."
"At this time, there are two tracks in front of the tram. There are five people on one track and only one person on the other track. As a driver, will you choose to hit those five people or will you choose to hit that
one person?"
Sehira frowned upon hearing this and fell into thought.
Thanos answered for her: "There is no doubt that everyone will choose to sacrifice that person to save those five people... Isn't this the plan I proposed?"
"No." As a result, Cecila shook her head.
Thanos stopped and looked at her in confusion.
Cecila also stopped and listened to her say: "It seems like this, but what if there is another situation?"
Thanos: "What scene?"
Sehira said: "There are five dying patients in the ward. One needs a heart transplant, one needs a lung transplant, one needs a liver transplant, one needs a kidney transplant, and one needs a spleen transplant."
"At this moment, a healthy person passed by the ward. If you were a doctor, would you choose to sacrifice all of this person's organs to save the five people in the ward?"
Thanos was stunned, lowered his head and thought for a few seconds, but his brows did not relax. Instead, he was a little panicked: "No, no, Seyla, you must have secretly changed some concepts, let me think about it..."
Sehira didn't give him time to think, and then said: "Thanos, you have admirable courage and wisdom. You were once my idol, but I have to say that there are some things you don't understand."
Thanos looked at her, opening his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he was speechless for a long time, as if he was petrified.
"I have something else to do, so I'm leaving first." Saisheela said goodbye to him immediately, turned around and left in a hurry, disappearing into the night.
Looking at her disappearing back, Thanos clenched his fists and roared angrily.
"Boom!" A stone pillar next to him was destroyed by him, causing rubble to fly.