“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.”
... which means what? That since people won’t volunteer to die that government has to step in and eliminate half the people? Is that what this guy is thinking?
I think you are right except it is not really half. It is probably 95% that they are not saying out loud.
I think that is what he implied. That is a common leftist belief because the only way to stop conservatives from proving them wrong by example is to just have an excuse to eliminate them. A theme that repeats through history.
Thanos is Greek for “death” - consider euthanasia, thanantopsis, etc.
Etymologically, viable is “able to live.”