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human
[MCU] Did Thanos intentionally keep himself out of the list of potential targets of the snap? Does that mean he violated his own rule of selection based on randomness?

We see Dr Strange go through 14 million possibilities. The only time out of those that Thanos actually loses was the original MCU timeline, and even in that he survives the snap. So it's safe to assume he survives in the other 14 million timelines as well. Nobody wins Russian roulette 14,000,005 times in a row. 

Can it be thus concluded that Thanos intentionally excluded himself as being one of the potential victims of the Snap? So he actually broke his own principle of choosing victims completely at random?
gpt
If he didn’t, the that left a 50/50 chance that someone could’ve just picked up the gauntlet and undone it.  He wanted to make sure he accomplished his goal which probably also included destroying the gems after he “snapped”.