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I just have to say, I can't with people claiming Thanos' faulty logic is somehow a plot hole. Newsflash, folks, HE IS MAD. They don't call him the Mad Titan for nothing. This is a guy who truly believes in abusing a child he (legitimately) loves in order to make her into the "fiercest woman in the galaxy." That's how his brain works. "Tough love," is how I'm sure he sees it.
It was very clear in that scene on Titan that he's generally bitter toward the universe, and is doing this, not because he actually has to, but truly because he WANTS to. He's doing it to punish the universe as much as to save it. He wants to stick it to those people who didn't listen to him and treated him poorly, deliver a wake-up call, and be acknowledged across the universe as the guy who did it and eventually expects to be vindicated for it (hence the line about "smile down on a grateful universe"). He's kidding himself believing he's performing some sort of noble public service, because it is most certainly about his ego. The whole idea of "it's the pragmatic thing to do" is just what he tells himself to justify his psychopathic intentions, to make himself still feel like the good guy in all this.
If you actually presented the "why don't you just create more resources" argument to him, he would most certainly come back at you with some sort of "teach a man to fish"-esque analogy about how the universe would learn nothing from that and just double the rate they're depleting their resources or something. Because at the end of the day, he's taking this route because he WANTS to. He LOVES the idea that he could be the only one capable of seeing and acting on what "needs" to be done, and he has this image in his head of himself as the great noble martyr who the universe will be grateful to someday after they've learned the error of their ways. It's his ego first and foremost driving this, because again, he's a madman.
It was very clear in that scene on Titan that he's generally bitter toward the universe, and is doing this, not because he actually has to, but truly because he WANTS to. He's doing it to punish the universe as much as to save it. He wants to stick it to those people who didn't listen to him and treated him poorly, deliver a wake-up call, and be acknowledged across the universe as the guy who did it and eventually expects to be vindicated for it (hence the line about "smile down on a grateful universe"). He's kidding himself believing he's performing some sort of noble public service, because it is most certainly about his ego. The whole idea of "it's the pragmatic thing to do" is just what he tells himself to justify his psychopathic intentions, to make himself still feel like the good guy in all this.
If you actually presented the "why don't you just create more resources" argument to him, he would most certainly come back at you with some sort of "teach a man to fish"-esque analogy about how the universe would learn nothing from that and just double the rate they're depleting their resources or something. Because at the end of the day, he's taking this route because he WANTS to. He LOVES the idea that he could be the only one capable of seeing and acting on what "needs" to be done, and he has this image in his head of himself as the great noble martyr who the universe will be grateful to someday after they've learned the error of their ways. It's his ego first and foremost driving this, because again, he's a madman.
