"Effective analogy that. Is there no hope of rearranging them into a shape capable of acting like a liferaft?"
To stretch this analogy, there is no liferaft that can carry all the passengers safely. There's only raft space for a few people and their supplies. And the longer they go on, the less rations there'll be and they'll start squabbling among themselves.
Better to pull into a port where all the passengers can disembark safely.
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