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Is the goal to resist normalization of the behavior or is to get through the security theater?
by was_boring 9y ago
Is the goal to resist normalization of the behavior or is to get through the security theater?
- veidr 9y agoIt depends. Sometimes, it's really important, and you have to make it through quicky even if that means sacrificing other principles. You have to balance your civic duty as a citizen with whatever else is going on. But hopefully our default mode is to emphasize our responsibility as democratic citizens to lead by example, and to resist degenerate behavior whenever we can...
- exolymph 9y agoObviously veidr's goal is to resist normalization of the behavior.
- mcv 9y agoBoth, but for non-Americans, getting through the security theater is not guaranteed, so they have to focus on that. For Americans, their rights are clearer and they are guaranteed to get through the security theater, so they can afford to fight the normalization of this.