NOVEL NEXT Paladin of Asgard
340 【Thanos' plan】
"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 jumped up against the case and angrily said: "Slaughter your own people, Thanos, are you kidding?"
Thanos looked at him: "Then what insight do you have? If we don't take the initiative to reduce the population, we will die within 100 years, and not only some of us will die, but all of us will die."
The man was not to be outdone: "No matter what, we can't swing the butcher knife at our own people."
"So you don't have any insight," Thanos said.
The man froze.
Thanos suddenly snorted coldly: "Hmph, don't criticize without suggestions, otherwise you will only appear to be stupid."
"You say I'm stupid" the man asked angrily.
"Yes." Thanos admitted bluntly, staring at him coldly.
"you"
Kronos knocked on the table: "Silence."
The hall finally returned to a bit of silence, but someone still said: "I don't agree with such a proposal, it's simply ridiculous."
Kronos also said: "Thanos, your proposal just now is really ill-considered"
"Does this need to be considered?" Thanos asked unconvinced, "Total extinction and partial extinction, does anyone want to choose the former?"
He looked around and said, "Of course you can refute my proposal, but you should refute it with better proposals instead of childish and worthless complaints like "this is too cruel" and "simply ridiculous". . "
One hesitantly said: "We can throttle 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 hovered at the line of food and clothing."
"No matter how economical the current situation is, it won't help. The Eternal Protoss can only destroy part of the population first if they want to survive."
Kronos looked at him: "Which part of the tribe are you going to destroy?"
"Random." Thanos said, "I designed a plan that can ensure the fairness of the whole process, and everyone will decide life and death with an equal probability."
"Those chosen by death can pass away peacefully by taking medicine, instead of being brutally killed by famine and war in the future, and our ethnic group can continue. This is the best solution and the only solution other than death."
Dozens of people looked at each other without speaking.
Thanos looks at Kronos: "Grandfather"
Kronos was silent for a moment, but finally shook his head: "Let's control the resources first. From today onwards, everyone in the whole family will distribute living supplies according to the minimum standard."
"Okay, everyone go back."
After that, he got up first and left the hall, and everyone dispersed, leaving Thanos alone.
Thanos sat alone in the room, silent for a long time, until the evening, and finally could only leave silently.
The hall is still resplendent and resplendent, but as soon as you come out, you can see all kinds of dilapidated scenes within a short walk.
The buildings in disrepair, the dilapidated roads and bridges, and the dark sky as the background of all these are almost an apocalyptic scene.
On the far horizon, a round of red sun slowly set, making the sky darker and darker.
"Thanos."
Thanos turned his head when he heard the sound, and then showed a rare smile: "Cecila, long time no see."
Behind him was a beautiful woman with short black hair. She walked over and asked with a smile, "Did you go to the meeting just now? What did you 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: "At most one or two hundred years later, 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. That's exactly my plan."
Cecilia was silent.
Thanos waited for a few seconds, and then couldn't help but look directly at her face, but saw expressions similar to those of most people in the hall before.
This made him clenched his fists, deeply disappointed and a little angry: "Don't you agree with my plan?"
"This is too cruel." Cecila said with her head bowed.
Her words made Thanos' face twitch, and it took him a long time to regain his composure.
Thanos took a deep breath: "There is a similar problem in the vast majority of civilizations in the universe, generally known as the "trolley problem". "
"The trolley problem, what do you mean?" Cecila obviously hadn't heard of it.
Thanos continued: "There was a trolley running along the track, and its controls failed, so it could only turn, but not stop."
"At this moment, there are two tracks in front of this tram, there are five people on one track, and only one person on the other track, as the driver, will you choose to hit the five people, or will you choose to hit the one person"
Cecila frowned upon hearing this, lost in thought.
But Thanos replied for her: "There is no doubt that everyone will choose to sacrifice that one person to save those five people, isn't the plan I proposed is exactly this?"
"No." As a result, Cecila shook her head.
Thanos stopped and looked at her in bewilderment.
Cecila also stopped, only to hear her say: "It seems to be like this, but what if we change the scene?"
Thanos: "What scenario"
"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," Sehira said.
"Just at this time, a healthy person passed by the ward. If you were a doctor, would you choose to sacrifice all the organs of this person to save the five people in the ward?"
Thanos was taken aback, and lowered his head to think for a few seconds, but his brows did not relax, but panicked: "No, no, Cecila, you must have secretly changed some concepts, let me think about it"
Cecila 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 and opened his mouth as if to say something, but he couldn't speak for a long time, as if petrified.
"I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first." Cecila said goodbye to him immediately, turned around and left in a hurry, disappearing into the night.
Seeing her disappearing back, Thanos clenched his fists and roared angrily.
A stone pillar next to "Boom" was destroyed by him, and the gravel flew.
"This is the only solution"
"What?" Many people were shocked.
One person even jumped up against the case and angrily said: "Slaughter your own people, Thanos, are you kidding?"
Thanos looked at him: "Then what insight do you have? If we don't take the initiative to reduce the population, we will die within 100 years, and not only some of us will die, but all of us will die."
The man was not to be outdone: "No matter what, we can't swing the butcher knife at our own people."
"So you don't have any insight," Thanos said.
The man froze.
Thanos suddenly snorted coldly: "Hmph, don't criticize without suggestions, otherwise you will only appear to be stupid."
"You say I'm stupid" the man asked angrily.
"Yes." Thanos admitted bluntly, staring at him coldly.
"you"
Kronos knocked on the table: "Silence."
The hall finally returned to a bit of silence, but someone still said: "I don't agree with such a proposal, it's simply ridiculous."
Kronos also said: "Thanos, your proposal just now is really ill-considered"
"Does this need to be considered?" Thanos asked unconvinced, "Total extinction and partial extinction, does anyone want to choose the former?"
He looked around and said, "Of course you can refute my proposal, but you should refute it with better proposals instead of childish and worthless complaints like "this is too cruel" and "simply ridiculous". . "
One hesitantly said: "We can throttle 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 hovered at the line of food and clothing."
"No matter how economical the current situation is, it won't help. The Eternal Protoss can only destroy part of the population first if they want to survive."
Kronos looked at him: "Which part of the tribe are you going to destroy?"
"Random." Thanos said, "I designed a plan that can ensure the fairness of the whole process, and everyone will decide life and death with an equal probability."
"Those chosen by death can pass away peacefully by taking medicine, instead of being brutally killed by famine and war in the future, and our ethnic group can continue. This is the best solution and the only solution other than death."
Dozens of people looked at each other without speaking.
Thanos looks at Kronos: "Grandfather"
Kronos was silent for a moment, but finally shook his head: "Let's control the resources first. From today onwards, everyone in the whole family will distribute living supplies according to the minimum standard."
"Okay, everyone go back."
After that, he got up first and left the hall, and everyone dispersed, leaving Thanos alone.
Thanos sat alone in the room, silent for a long time, until the evening, and finally could only leave silently.
The hall is still resplendent and resplendent, but as soon as you come out, you can see all kinds of dilapidated scenes within a short walk.
The buildings in disrepair, the dilapidated roads and bridges, and the dark sky as the background of all these are almost an apocalyptic scene.
On the far horizon, a round of red sun slowly set, making the sky darker and darker.
"Thanos."
Thanos turned his head when he heard the sound, and then showed a rare smile: "Cecila, long time no see."
Behind him was a beautiful woman with short black hair. She walked over and asked with a smile, "Did you go to the meeting just now? What did you 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: "At most one or two hundred years later, 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. That's exactly my plan."
Cecilia was silent.
Thanos waited for a few seconds, and then couldn't help but look directly at her face, but saw expressions similar to those of most people in the hall before.
This made him clenched his fists, deeply disappointed and a little angry: "Don't you agree with my plan?"
"This is too cruel." Cecila said with her head bowed.
Her words made Thanos' face twitch, and it took him a long time to regain his composure.
Thanos took a deep breath: "There is a similar problem in the vast majority of civilizations in the universe, generally known as the "trolley problem". "
"The trolley problem, what do you mean?" Cecila obviously hadn't heard of it.
Thanos continued: "There was a trolley running along the track, and its controls failed, so it could only turn, but not stop."
"At this moment, there are two tracks in front of this tram, there are five people on one track, and only one person on the other track, as the driver, will you choose to hit the five people, or will you choose to hit the one person"
Cecila frowned upon hearing this, lost in thought.
But Thanos replied for her: "There is no doubt that everyone will choose to sacrifice that one person to save those five people, isn't the plan I proposed is exactly this?"
"No." As a result, Cecila shook her head.
Thanos stopped and looked at her in bewilderment.
Cecila also stopped, only to hear her say: "It seems to be like this, but what if we change the scene?"
Thanos: "What scenario"
"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," Sehira said.
"Just at this time, a healthy person passed by the ward. If you were a doctor, would you choose to sacrifice all the organs of this person to save the five people in the ward?"
Thanos was taken aback, and lowered his head to think for a few seconds, but his brows did not relax, but panicked: "No, no, Cecila, you must have secretly changed some concepts, let me think about it"
Cecila 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 and opened his mouth as if to say something, but he couldn't speak for a long time, as if petrified.
"I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first." Cecila said goodbye to him immediately, turned around and left in a hurry, disappearing into the night.
Seeing her disappearing back, Thanos clenched his fists and roared angrily.
A stone pillar next to "Boom" was destroyed by him, and the gravel flew.
"This is the only solution"
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