[ SECRET POST #4512 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4512 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Thanos's "love" for Gamora was a cruel love that gave nothing and demanded everything. What Thanos felt for Gamora was really only love insofar as Thanos himself believed it to be love.

Which, on the one hand, I'm very much of the mind that he can take his "love" and shove it up his ass. But on the other hand, I think Thanos's belief that he loves Gamora is interesting, because the way that toxic individuals "love" is an issue that a lot of people deal with in real life. Plenty of people declare they love their children, believe they love their children, feel something for their children which they identify as love, and yet treat their children in very unloving ways. And the children are left to attempt to make sense of that.

As a society, I don't think we've ever really come to any sort of consensus on whether love is determined by the person who loves or by the recipient of that love. Theoretically, if I believe I love somebody, but they don't feel loved by me, does that mean I don't love them? I'd say it means that my love has no value outside of whatever value it has to me - but is that enough to legitimize it?

In Thanos's case, it makes complete sense that he doesn't need Gamora to feel loved by him in order to believe his love is legitimate in and of itself, because he's a megalomaniac. Even though I think he's full of shit, and maybe the soul stone should have as well.

[meadowphoenix]

right I can definitely see it as the soul stone validating a subjective perspective from Thanos, but superhero movies avoid the subjective so much that it feels irresponsible.

[(Anonymous)]

+1