>>28286012Zinnia's own mouth, actually. She claims that the meteor would cause devastation anywhere that it hit, but the other world might not have the science or Mega-Fug to stop it. The meteor wouldn't do more damage just because it hit a different world, if that world was basically the same
If a Meteor striking world B would kill X number of people, That same meteor striking world A would, provided the worlds are of similar population density, kill the same number of people. By the logic that people die when meteors hit Pokemon worlds, and that a Meteor was going to hit a Pokemon world, the procession is that people would die whether World A or B was hit.
The difference is that the people in world A did not know about world B, and even if they did, there was no way to determine for certain whether the meteor they sent away from world A would actually appear at world B, or some other location. we can deduce that there is a near-guarantee, barring only the most unlikely of miracles, that doing nothing would cause the Meteor to strike world A, which would kill a given number of people. Alternatively, they could send the meteor away, which may or may not arrive at a world that may or may not exist, though if it did exist, and the meteor did show up there, a similar number of people would die, again barring an unlikely scenario.
If meteor hits = people die, which is Zinnia's argument for her actions in the first place, the meteor hitting world A will, by guarantee, again barring an unlikely scenario, kill a certain number of people. By sending the meteor away, there is only a possibility for the meteor hitting world B, and killing a certain number of people, give or take a margin of error due to coincidence and differences between the two worlds in terms of population.
Either people do die, or people might die. Those were the choices facing the scientists of ORAS. People might die might not be a great answer, but it is certainly the better of the two.
