• Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    What if that gas allows everyone in the room to function and when it stops they all either die or fight for the limited alternatives, that fight releases far more gas than would have been released over the next five hours and kills all the people working on opening the window and making alternatives who would have been finished with in the hour?

    Your metaphor only works because it misses out all the important bits.