Interesting philosophical question: if a man buys a burning dumpster and then, giggling madly, proceeds to throw in several sticks of dynamite caked, for truly

Interesting philosophical question: if a man buys a burning dumpster and then, giggling madly, proceeds to throw in several sticks of dynamite caked, for truly inexplicable reasons, in his own feces, can he really be said to have destroyed it, or has he merely, if perhaps prematurely, put it out of the world’s collective misery?