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Thought exercise: Someone with lawful authority tells you to move. You don't move. What now?
by Domenic_S 9y ago
Thought exercise: Someone with lawful authority tells you to move. You don't move. What now?
- ribosometronome 9y agoBecome a key figure in the Civil Rights movement?
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoExpect to get arrested first.
- tedunangst 9y agoSettle it with a real time auction on the blockchain.
- gt_ 9y agoICO date?
- Pica_soO 9y agoDronestrike cause that's seat-terrorism?
- na85 9y agoHow do I know that $random_armed_thug is lawfully authorized? Just because he says so? I paid for my seat on this flight.
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- parent5446 9y agoIf you hope to live, you should comply with $random_armed_thug, especially if they are not lawfully authorized. In fact, the less authorized, the more you should comply, unless you're saying you should start fighting an armed mugger in order to protect your wallet.
- deanCommie 9y agoThis is how civil liberties end - not with a bang but with a whimper. From the Patriot Act, to Warrantless Wiretapping, to this.
- synicalx 9y agoHow do you know the police officer telling you to leave is authorized to do so? What are you, the President?
- Domenic_S 9y agoIt was a stipulation in my thought exercise, but to your point, all passengers must obey flight attendants, here is the federal law: http://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-49-transportation/49-usc-sect-46504.html http://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-49-transportation/49-usc-s...
- talyian 9y agoYou comply if you think the request is reasonable and lawful, otherwise you don't. Maybe you get your nose broken and United allegedly pays you $140 million in damages. Maybe the incident causes all warrantless police offices to be banned from hospital ER rooms. Or maybe the law doesn't stand on your side and you wind up in jail and fined. Who knows.
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- valbaca 9y agoThere's a reason why there's Lawful Good & Lawful Evil. Lawful != In the Right.
- gt_ 9y agoClose my eyes, chin to the sky, place my arms out toward them, limp my wrists and announce unamused "Drag Me"
- tinus_hn 9y agoDon't drag me, bro!
- synicalx 9y agoApparently, you violently downvote people who have the gall to ask such a question on the internet.