• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It’s close enough to the tracks that it would hurt the hostages, and the wreckage would probably have enough momentum to hit them anyway.

      This is a good analogy actually. Blowing up the train would feel good, but that isn’t going to stop the momentum, and it’s unfortunately virtually impossible to outright stop it’s momentum at this point. All that blowing up the train would accomplish is sending fiery wreckage towards the middle track.

      This is why accelerationism is stupid.

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      5 months ago

      You’ll have to be more specific about what blowing up the train maps to in real life before I can tell you whether or not doing so would also kill a shit ton of people.

      But to keep it in metaphor, there are also innocent people riding the train and blowing it up would kill them, too.