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> What if all your (Anonymous) friends went to Wal-Mart and stood in line to buy something. Then when they got to the front they would fumble around in their po

by anamax 16y ago

> What if all your (Anonymous) friends went to Wal-Mart and stood in line to buy something. Then when they got to the front they would fumble around in their pockets and say, "oh darn, I forgot my wallet", then they'd got out and come back in and do it again? Here's another analogy (asked of someone who thinks that it's okay to do the above to walmart). Suppose I interfered with your ability to do your job via similar tactics? What if I just blocked your ability to get to work? What? "You" are not walmart? So what? Are you more important than the folks who work at walmart? Are you more important than the folks who own walmart stock? Heck - are you more important than the folks who want to buy something from walmart? You're not just costing walmart money, you're interfering with folks who want to buy things at walmart. Such intereference may not be vandalism, but that doesn't make it acceptable.

thefool 16y ago
You mean like forming a picket line? Like what oppressed workers did in the throws of the industrial revolution? Its peaceful protest...
- hugh3 16y ago
  Yes, in fact that should also be illegal, and in most jurisdictions it is. You're allowed to form a picket line, but you're not allowed to physically prevent people from crossing it. And that's the way it should be -- if I feel like going to Wal-Mart then the opinion of fifty (or fifty thousand) random people on whether I should be allowed to do so or not really doesn't enter into it.
  - thefool 16y ago
    Yes, but what is going on here is the situation of there being so many picketers that it takes you a while to get through the picket line. The picketers aren't touching you, but you do become aware of the fact that they are there. It seems like the epitome of peaceful protest.
    - anamax 16y ago
      > It seems like the epitome of peaceful protest. Surely you're not suggesting that all "peaceful protest" is acceptable, because it isn't. Peaceful merely means that you're not committing battery. That's not enough to make something acceptable, and attaching "protest" help. Your right to speak does not imply that I have an obligation to listen.

by anamax 16y ago

thefool 16y ago

You mean like forming a picket line? Like what oppressed workers did in the throws of the industrial revolution? Its peaceful protest...

hugh3 16y ago
Yes, in fact that should also be illegal, and in most jurisdictions it is. You're allowed to form a picket line, but you're not allowed to physically prevent people from crossing it. And that's the way it should be -- if I feel like going to Wal-Mart then the opinion of fifty (or fifty thousand) random people on whether I should be allowed to do so or not really doesn't enter into it.
- thefool 16y ago
  Yes, but what is going on here is the situation of there being so many picketers that it takes you a while to get through the picket line. The picketers aren't touching you, but you do become aware of the fact that they are there. It seems like the epitome of peaceful protest.
  - anamax 16y ago
    > It seems like the epitome of peaceful protest. Surely you're not suggesting that all "peaceful protest" is acceptable, because it isn't. Peaceful merely means that you're not committing battery. That's not enough to make something acceptable, and attaching "protest" help. Your right to speak does not imply that I have an obligation to listen.