teamironmanforever:

Am I the only one confused by Rogers’ “We don’t trade lives” argument? 

I mean by choosing to prioritise one life – Vision’s life – you are in fact trading away all Wakandan lives as you are committing them to war to save vision and, really, you are also risking every life in the known Universe. 

Hell, the very concept of War is one of trading lives. Soldiers go to war to fight either for an ideology (i.e. “freedom) or to protect the lives of their fellow countrymen. Every time a soldier dies they are trading their lives for something or someone else. 

I feel like the Russos tried so hard to sell us on this half baked romance between the witch and the android (a romance that no one gives a shit about) that they had to find the flimsiest of excuses to keep it going. Like, it is straight up OOC to me that Steven Grant Rogers, a WW2 veteran who literally chose to lay down his life to save others, would not understand/act on the concept of sacrifice for the greater good.