π What even is this argument?? If 100% of the population decided to free the kid, or heck, depending on how they run things, even if 51% decided to, they could go down to the basement and open the door.
The end.
What stops them is cowardice and selfishness, not the fact that they didn't start it.
How do you think slavery ended? How do you think segregation ended? How do you think discrimination against gay people ended? All of these were ended after the people who started them were long-dead.