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“If you saw a truck carrying 40 million people going downhill at full speed, would you try to put stones on its wheels to halt it and most likely get killed? If you saw a building with 40 million occupants on the verge of collapse, would you stretch your hands to catch the falling blocks and possibly get crushed? Or would you step aside and watch?” N.W. Ngumbi.
Unaware of these fundamental questions, and in a separate forum, the driver of the bus and owner of the building said he would jump out of the car or the building because it is not his sole responsibility. All the passengers can and should stop the car from crashing. As for the building, if each held on to one brick, maybe the building would hold.
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