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The amount of people killed in a finite track length on the real numbers track is larger than the total number of people on the entire length of the integer track.
That's true, but the number saved us even larger. This clearly make you a hero as you saved the largest possible number of people, and the unfortunate death toll of infinity can be swept under the carpet as a mere rounding error, at least that's what most action movies have taught me.
that's not true. any interval of reals has the same cardinality as all reals, e.g. (0,1) is the same "size" as (-∞,∞). the number killed is equal to the number saved
I was, perhaps, not being entirely serious in my previous comments. I still save an uncountably infinite number of people though, so Im feeling pretty good about my day.