Captain Tired
the littlest hufflepuff
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The bottom line is that it's unrealistic as all hell. It's about survival. There would have been one person on that ship who would have prized saving their own skin over the lives of a bunch of murderers and thieves, and risked looking like a monster in front of everyone else. The notion that there wouldn't have been one person willing to turn the key is a statistical impossibility.The ferry scene is quite a different situation.
First of they are there as a group, anyone going up to take the trigger would have everyone else's eyes on them, everyone would know afterward that they had done it. That creates a kind of pressure that was absent in WW84.
TDK also focused heavily on the idea that Gotham had been inspired by Harvey Dent, that he was a moral leader who people tried to emulate. The idea being that his example weighed on the minds of those in the ferry, disuading them from using the trigger.
And finally there is the sample size, there were hundreds of people on the ferry, but billions in contact with Lord. The odds of getting a bad apple are weighed far more heavily against WW84.