I feel like he kinda was. If you think about it, half of the universe can cut down on some major problems. Let's talk about earth, the good side is there would be less pollution and less waste and alot of things would be cleaner, in the environment of course, I truthfully think that the ground and everything else would be littered in "Have you seen him/her/them?" posters. So at the same time we would benefit our environment, and probably never have a war again because of the free space, we would have ruined our economy and government. So truthfully at the same time he was, he really wasn't.