1b.

Sit.:
Miguel H. sat towards the back of the car of an old wooden roller coaster. It was empty but for a young couple in the front. As the car ascended, with a long series of metallic clanks, and in preparation for the great drop, Miguel sensed a certain unease eminating from the young couple in front of him. He could not hear what they were saying, but the young man was looking away, off into the distance, while his companion's head was rocking back and forth as if she had lost control of it, or as if she were in an extreme amount of duress.

Q. 1:
Was it Miguel's responsibility, or that of the jaded boyfriend, who was feeling and increasing, and decidedly sharp, amount of disgust and loathing for his companion, to care for the afraid girl?

Q. 2:
Given the fact that the boyfriend's disgust for his companion was rooted in his perception of her as a sheltered little child, whose psyche had never and could never fully develop as a result of her problematic childhood, and given that her illogical and unbased fear on the rollercoaster represented, to him, a symbolic culmination of all of the ways that she could never live up to his expectations of a companion, and that based on this realization he intended to end their relationship in the near future, was it then within acceptable behavior for him to look away?

Q. 3:
Given the fact that during the course of their ride the roller coaster experienced a mechanical malfunction, and that the car was derailed from the track and fell to the ground, and that the young woman was fatally wounded but that Miguel and the young man went home the same day with only minor injuries, who, between Miguel and the young man, was left with a more profound sense of self-loathing and guilt?