The crane operator tried to stop it,
Yeah, right. What did he do, jump out of his crane cab and stand in front of the thing? He didn't try to stop the thing - there's nothing he could have done.
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"Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced" - Thomas Jefferson, moral relativist