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You know, everyone hates that guy, but he was the only reasonable person in that movie.
Ghosts aren't real, and the Ghostbusters were reckless. Egon and Ray built an unstable containment apparatus without permits or inspections in an old firehouse with shoddy electrical wiring. They built back-pack carried laser weapons capable of annihilating a city block with an errant crossing of the streams.
Ray also manifested StayPuft Gozer.
Venkman was a charletain and a fraud, as well as a narcissistic sociopath.
Winston was just a guy they hired off the street.
Shutting down their nuclear "ghost containment" apparatus was the responsible thing to do. Walter Peck deserves a medal, or maybe a prosthetic device for his downstairs mixup.
First off, in the world of Ghostbusters, ghosts absolutely are real, though their appearances seem to be somewhat sporadic.
Second, Peck was a man who abused his power and nearly caused an apocalypse.
I'm not saying the Ghostbusters were entirely in the right, but Peck absolutely went too far because of his own personal biases. When he first went to the firehouse to investigate, he started out just fine. When he asked to see the containment unit, Venkman asked a perfectly valid question, "why do you want to see it?" From there, Peck immediately went off on a tangent, accusing the Ghostbusters of being frauds, and threatening legal action, to which Venkman responded in kind.
The next time Peck shows up, he has barged in and shuts everything down without thought of the consequences. Even the people he brings along for support think it's a bad idea.
It's like somebody built a bomb in their back yard, and instead of properly defusing it, he insists they take a sledgehammer to it.
Imagine how this goes if he kept his cool in the first meeting. Venkman likely shows him the containment unit, and Spengler explains how it works. If it really does run afoul of EPA regulations, the Ghostbusters get a fine, and are asked to bring their equipment into compliance. Maybe they have to retrofit a few things, but in the end, there's probably no explosion of ghosts, and possibly Vinz Clortho and Zuul never manage to link up (as their meeting was facilitated by the chaos of the aftermath), preventing Gozer from entering our dimension.
Thanos did nothing wrong.
Thanos is the hero we need
Much like the EPA!
Those were "unlicensed nuclear accelerators" -- way worse than mere lasers.
You make some good points, but how can you expect people to read past this!? In-universe, ghosts are 100% real. That's the entire premise of the movie!