If you could could “Thanos snap” every criminal in the world, would you do it?

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Only actual criminals, tyrants and the corrupt in positions of power would be eradicated by it, not those innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. And you wouldn’t suffer any radiation damage from it. For those who are unfamiliar with Marvel’s Thanos, he used a device called the infinity gauntlet to eradicate half of all life in the universe. What if this device existed and someone used it to eradicate all evil instead?

Imagine a world with no crime, no tyranny, no corruption

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In regards to criminals, Violent criminals and fraudsters would be the only ones getting thanos snapped.

MCheetah · Accepted Answer

No.

Because 1) I'm not God (nor do I believe in God). And I also don't believe in "good and evil." That's not to say, selfishness, greed, corruption, and tyranny aren't all negative and detrimental to society.

2) Not every law is purposeful or meaningful. Like, are jaywalkers "criminals" too? Weed smokers? People with unpaid taxes? Edward Snowden?

3) Saying "Only actual criminals, tyrants and the corrupt in positions of power" is subjective. Who determines who's "bad enough" to wipe away? Who determines who's truly powerful? Chris Pratt is probably worth a few million bucks and is in a "position f power." Guess he gets snapped too for the crime of being a successful Capitalist?

4) I wouldn't want to be judge by the same standards I myself wouldn't want to be judged by. What if some radical feminist was in this position and thought I was to be wiped away for being a heterosexual male? Again, it's all subjective.

5) Just like Thanos' plan was stupid (although at least MCU Thanos didn't do it just to try to literally f*ck the Grim Reaper), so is this one. It doesn't get rid of all the problems that lead to criminals in the first place, which is usually desperation, low education, few opportunities, or a lack of moral upbringing. Say I got rid of all of the politicians in Washington D. C What's to stop new scumbags from taking their place?

So no. I wouldn't do this. If anything, I'd just make humanity smarter. "Good and evil" only exist as ways for us to get along and not kill each other. "Good" is just cooperation and peaceful coexistence, while "evil" is just destructive selfishness. Even in the most moral-less, purely intellectual perspective, it's far better to be cooperative and to help each other, than it is to destroy for your own gain.

And as much as I hate conformity and mediocrity, I once had an intelligent conversation with @Mia-Wallace about the benefits of a conformist society like Scandinavia. How, "when everyone works together, everyone wins." As opposed to the Western standard of "one millionaire and 100,000 poor people." A more intelligent society would be the best "Infinity Stone wish" to hope for. But even that would probably not be a good idea, as we wouldn't have earned that intelligence.

It's funny how most the women said "yes," though.

Snakeyes7 · Accepted Answer

You're going to have to go more into detail on what kind of criminal. You'd probably be snapping nearly everyone because everyone has breached the speed limit or has broken any other extremely easy to break law.

RebeccaBI2000 · Accepted Answer

There are a lot of people who were wrongly convicted. Wrong place at the wrong time or just because one person said something they were arrested

LivAndLearn · Accepted Answer

Yes! As long as it's actual criminals

Dragonpurple · Answer

I was about to ask if I could choose a specific criminal type. I'd do it for all the people who violate traffic laws, combined with the violent criminals. Not fraudsters, I think those people should be forced to repay the stuff they stole the rest of their lives, even if they have to work in a slave camp to do it... cause no one will hire them.

Traffic laws is because many times people, bad drivers cut me off and if I had hit them, they would of died. Speed often leads to many deaths and car crashes, all of which are not accidents because they could be avoided by patience and good car maintenance. We get people going over a 100 mph here down the freeway. Little old me going 65 pulling a trailer, two line road... passing a semi going up a hill, I pull into the fast lane to pass them as they are only going 45... now that car coming up at a 110 rear ends me. Ruins my trailer and kills themselves or their kids, passengers, etc... had they be going the speed limit that never would of happened.

hahahmm · Answer

No.. because imagine if you had a time machine and you could go back in time and get rid of every criminal. If you want to be fair you have to make no exceptions. Eventually you discover that the first couple of humans were totally a-hole criminals. They just got away with it because there were no cops. So you wipe them out. Next thing you know there's no humans at all.

There's a biblical prophecy about a future point in time when anyone engaged in criminal stuff will be instantly killed by supernatural forces.

silkjames · Answer

Come ON this ain't X-Men man lol BUT now u know I should answer your question I Would not be worry about tyrants but HELL YEAH TYRANTS WOULD BE trying to figure out how too bend there knee too me when I hit there courtyland next lol and the only snap IL be doing is snaping the fuc out of the whole world gold bars reserves all the gold bars in too my first black Asian alittle splash of Portuguese but yeah Yeah my first Scrooge McDuck money tower and I'm puting a diving board in that shit too 🔥😁🤣🤣 my master plan shhh don't tell no one 😂😂😂😂😂

Luopio27 · Answer

- Crossing a red light on a cross
- Driving faster than the speed limit
- Not returning found items to owners

There are thousands of laws that are broken on daily bades by people in all levels of society, in all races and ages, all over the world.

Thanos snap on criminals would eliminate over 99% of humans. The reason there is crime, is that the world economy is so unstable and unfair. We as humans dont care about each other as we care about those that are our loved ones.

So Hell No to The Thanos Snap.

Hanrej · Answer

No! Good and evil are points of view, nothing more. My boy Pain (also using popular culture) brings that point to life in Naruto shippuuden.
Killing of all criminals is a far too easy concept. According to what laws? By what values? By who's point of view? If the gauntlet got into the hands of enemies to the West and a person from there snapped their fingers, who would die? And by extension of that argument, if I snapöed my fingers to kill off everyone I percieve as evil, how many would die and how many more reliant on them would die as a result and what would that action then make me?

On a sidenote, I love the gender representation on this question. 😂

Halibut · Answer

So that would include people who punched someone for calling their wife the "n-word," people whose job is to make fast food appear more tasty than it looks in reality, and probably almost every politician. No... not unless we're on the verge of an overpopulation collapse and it's either this or build a genetically engineered plague.

jaybee281 · Answer

If we could prosecute the people I dislike for the crime of me disliking them and thereby having them become criminals - Then yes without a single doubt I would - If in reality we're talking about criminals in general - Maybe putting my knee on their neck is more of a hands-on experience than a snap - might have to ask officer chauvin though which one is more effective

Nomoturtle · Answer

Absolutely not. This is one of those "roads to hell paved with good intentions"/"greater good" things. Although when the proposition is just directly murdering millions of 'untermensch', I hardly even see the good intention.

That's to say nothing of how such power to enact that policy would be horrendously abused.

FTnWo · Answer

I have 2 felonies on my record that I absolutely did not do, I would however dissappear the crooked ass cops and the peice of shit judge involved in my case and all child molesters and rapists and woman and child beaters for sure but I know that some people are capable of changing and were under the influence of drugs and such and should be issued another chance.

DarkWinterNights · Answer

If you’re basically erasing millions of people from existence, wouldn’t you technically be an even worse person than 99% of the ones you erased? Would you yourself be erased? Ethical and existential questions aside, some of the worst people in history have had a role in changing the course of history ultimately for the better. I’ll leave the eternal damnation to God.

Adam1978 · Answer

No because the world would collapse because most people has committed some kind of illegal activity in their life even if they didn't got caught doing it so that snap wouldn't just turn me to dust but almost everyone that isn't a toddler.

Likes2drive · Answer

I guess you mean hardened criminals that have done really bad things otherwise we all might be gone since everyone has done something against the law , but eventually there would be new ones from people being born. There was an old movie like that but can’t remember what the name was but a crazy scientist invented a machine like that and he disappeared too after turning it on , lol

Summer03 · Answer

Depends. A good person could become tyrant as take over leader’s role. People can make poor choice like mug, break in and rob because they are poor and need money for foods or medicines. The cycle of crime won’t never break.

420Rachel · Answer

If we could narrow that down to violent criminals and rapists/child molesters then count me in. 👍

Jaumet · Answer

Every criminal in the world... Can you please narrow down just what in the hell you mean as something being a criminal act? Let me put it this way.. (yes, I'm borrowing this... duh) He without no sin, may cast the first stone. Seriously Mom? (catholic joke) In other words if you were to do that, who in the would be left?

VanillaSalt · Answer

Without a god damn thought… he’ll even with the people ide die for I’m not sure Ide refuse to press the button that ends a random half of humanity… but choosing who dies without a second thought.

crazy8000 · Answer

Majority of humans would disappear, if not most since there are a lot of funny laws created by messed up individuals in most countries on this planet.

We as humans brake multiple laws every day without being aware of it.

jshm2 · Answer

Evil is as much a requirement to social development, as good.  You cannot have one or the other. Hence why Thanos was largely a joke in his ideology. He was just a simple minded psychopath.

RichSD · Answer

Since that would kill everyone on the planet, seems like a bad idea. Somewhere there is a law against just about everything. Corruption is a morality thing, not a legal thing. Morals and laws are not the same.

BrosephBrostar · Answer

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf

Ailito · Answer

I would... But you wouldn't like what happens after it.

Nik1hil · Answer

No...  Imbalance, in YIN-YANG will send everything in imbalance.. So that would be really stupid thing to do!..

Riddler1412 · Answer

I wouldn't. I'd use it to warp reality to get those kind of people in prison without the chance of being sent free by mistake. Either that, or eradicate crime as a whole.

GASCAN2 · Answer

No, because being a criminal =/= being evil 🤷‍♂️ Not all criminals are bad, maybe they're broke and need money desperately.  It's not my business what people get up to.

king-dom1 · Answer

If that happens half the government will be lost and people will create chaos, i would restart this world, only saving the people I care and trust, the rest will have their mind erased and i would create the government

someginger · Answer

Nah i would lose half of my family and i like at least some of them.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

Why stop with just criminals? I might as well include communists and religious radicals too.

Neosporin · Answer

I don’t want to be responsible for that many deaths. If I had the gauntlet I would probably just snap myself to have a rocking body lol

JosyJosy · Answer

I'd hand that glove to someone else I would be the only criminal left :/

LonewolfMeme · Answer

No because jails would have no purpose, cops wouldn’t have a purpose some government laws wouldn’t be effective anymore

BuffHeracross · Answer

Thanos snapping all criminals wouldn't stop crime or corruption or anything else like that. You'd just turn into Light from Death Note.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

God's certainly not doing it!! But, that's mostly because there's no such thing as god!

SenseiSeptred · Answer

No because there are people similar to Yoshimitsu from the Soul Caliber, and Tekken series in real life.

DamnSam · Answer

If it snaps away all which I personally consider criminals, then yes I would snap it with no doubt

call_me_scar · Answer

I'd do it even if I had to take the radiation damage

Therisinghero12 · Answer

They deserve a trial and a fair punishment as I'd want in their position, plus that'd leave a power vacuum that would probably make things much worse

anylolone · Answer

How do I know they are criminals? What kind of criminals? By which laws?

ManHater · Answer

I would snap every Woke progressive libtard to death, take all the trans, mentally ill, homosexuals, lesbians and those screwed up democrats.

OddBeMe · Answer

What’s the cut off on crimes? Would speedsters be eliminated?

Kelly6 · Answer

nope deleting all criminals will cause problem. everything has to be balanced even

Cubus · Answer

No. Criminal can change. They should have a second chance.

NightOwl8801 · Answer

Crooked politicians would be at the top of that list

joeldalton · Answer

Considering almost all of us have committed some crime, that seems a poor decision.

TexasRed95 · Answer

It's not my place to decide when or how someone should die.

Shy_Steve · Answer

Only if I could do it to all the People who were going to Murder someone.

Rob17792 · Answer

no if anything i'd eliminate all these fucking ghetto trash bastards and bums

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

No I don’t need that much power to decide who lives and dies

Sabretooth · Answer

tempting... but, sometimes, good people get pulled into doing bad things.

purplepoppy · Answer

Would there be anyone left

postaldudePL123 · Answer

Human race will end then since no of them are innocent

Whytepowerhanma · Answer

I’d thanos snap all vegans incels liberals and children

Nomina · Answer

No, I don't want that kind of power.

Zigzagwigwag · Answer

No, everyone is a sinner so no

EssenceOfLight · Answer

If I think about this question, it's racist.

disgustingweebtrash · Answer

You would be thanos snapping yourself

boobliker · Answer

the world needs a good villen!

ChefPapiChulo · Answer

thats crazy talk and fascist

Cassie_1992 · Answer

I would and politicians their biggest criminals.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

I don’t think that would exactly change anything

MJtheCoach · Answer

1st kill bill gates! Then Rockefeller

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