Avatar: The Way of Water director James Cameron recently admitted he supports the mass murder and depopulation agenda of Marvel Studios’ fictional character Thanos.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Gamora explains Thanos’ outlook on life saying, “The entire time I knew Thanos, he only ever had one goal. To bring balance to the universe by wiping out half of all life. He used to kill people planet by planet, massacre by massacre.”
Later in the film, Thanos further explains his worldview to Gamora while discussing his culling of her home planet. When Gamora asserts she was happy on her home planet as a child, Thanos countered, “Going to bed hungry…scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I’m the one who stopped that.”
He continued, “Do you know what’s happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It’s a paradise.”
Gamora retorts, “Because you murdered half the planet.” Thanos counters, “A small price to pay for salvation.”
He goes on to explain, “Little one, it’s a simple calculus. This universe is finite, its resources finite. If life is unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correction.”
When Gamora says Thanos doesn’t actually know this, he responds, “I’m the only one who knows that. At least, I’m the only one with the will to act on it. For a time, you had that same will as you fought by my side, daughter.”
Speaking with Time, Cameron fully endorsed this evil worldview and ideology telling the outlet, “I can relate to Thanos. I thought he had a pretty viable answer. The problem is nobody is going to put up their hand to volunteer to be the half that has to go.”
In Infinity War, during a flashback sequence, Thanos’ shock troops forcibly separate the Zehobereians into two sides. One of the sides is then brutally gunned down by Thanos’ forces. Later in the film, Thanos takes it upon himself to obtain a fully powered Infinity Gauntlet and snaps his fingers in order to wipe out half of all life in the universe.
Cameron’s comments to Time came during a discussion about the production on Avatar: The Way of Water switching to catered vegan food so they wouldn’t be seen as hypocritical when lecturing oil companies.
Cameron explained, “We couldn’t lecture oil companies and turn around and eat hamburgers.”
In order to enact the decision to switch to vegan food, Cameron appeared to shroud his dictatorial decision via a council circle.
Cameron relayed, “We all sat down together in a council circle. I said, ‘This is what I want to do. If everyone wants to start screaming and throwing stuff at me, maybe we won’t do it. But if people grudgingly nod, then we’re going ahead.’”
According to Time, no one objected and the council “grudgingly nodded.”
Cameron’s comments and his clear pushing of this evil is indeed just that; it is evil. Killing billions of people in order to “save the planet” is evil and wrong.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church quoting St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, “‘An evil action cannot be justified by reference to a good intention.’ The end does not justify the means.”
It further notes, “There are concrete acts that it is always wrong to choose, because their choice entails a disorder of the will, i.e., a moral evil. One may not do evil so that good may result from it.”
St. Paul also addresses this “philosophy” in Romans 3:8 writing, “And why not say—as we are accused and as some claim we say—that we should do evil that good may come of it? Their penalty is what they deserve.”
Cameron’s comments come after he claimed in an interview with Esquire Middle East that he’s sickened by what’s happening with guns in our culture.
He stated, ““I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30+ years ago, in our current world.”
“What’s happening with guns in our society turns my stomach,” he continued. “I’m happy to be living in New Zealand where they just banned all assault rifles two weeks after that horrific mosque shooting a couple of years ago.”
To this end Cameron claimed he cut around 10 minutes of footage featuring gunplay from Avatar: The Way of Water.
He relayed, “I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action. I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. You have to have conflict, of course. Violence and action are the same thing, depending on how you look at it. This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an action filmmaker.”
What do you make of James Cameron’s comments?