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There are a lot of people out there who have important things that have to do with their health. Just because someone is not in an ambulance doesn't mean they
by dbsmith83 6y ago
There are a lot of people out there who have important things that have to do with their health. Just because someone is not in an ambulance doesn't mean they don't have somewhere important to be. Not everyone with a medical condition rides in an ambulance.
- JamesBarney 6y agoBut the vast majority of medical conditions where routing around a protest or road closure would cause serious harm to an individual are probably in ambulances.
- dbsmith83 6y agoNot really sure what your point is regarding 'vast majority'. How many people's lives are acceptable to endanger? Just today, an interstate was shut down unexpectedly because of protesters. What about everyone who was trapped on that highway and could not move, let alone reroute?
- JamesBarney 6y agoThe same amount that is endangered for a parade, a presidential motorcade, or road construction.
- dbsmith83 6y agoThat is a terrible analogy. The key difference is that parades, motorcades, and road construction are planned events. Protesters who unexpectedly stop traffic do not give people opportunity to plan. side comment: Loving the downvotes for a legitimate point. When did hacker news turn into reddit?
- JamesBarney 6y agoIf you need to get to a hospital they all slow you down, doesn't matter how planned the event is.
- dbsmith83 6y agodetours
- jcims 6y agoSo just roll the dice that you’re not going to hurt anyone by blocking traffic? Who’s responsible if something does go wrong? That’s going to really help the cause.
- megous 6y agoWe'd still have communism here if people were so obedient and concerned about blocking traffic that millions would not go into the streets for protests in 1989.
- jcims 6y agoLook people can build killdozers and flatten police buildings for all i care. The point is that blocking traffic is an escalation that could literally cost lives, either by denying travel in an emergency or by putting cars and human bodies in conflict.
- jascii 6y agoWe should really have laws against commuting, commuters block traffic way more frequently than protests do.. Work is an escalation that could literally cost lives..
- dbsmith83 6y agoYou're just being obtuse now. It's a shame you don't value ordinary people's lives. It's a very privileged position to be in.
- jascii 6y agoThe simple fact is that no people have been killed due to a protest blocking the road. People have been killed by police violence. Theoretical grandstanding over an unlikely hypothetical scenario to condemn protesters is being obtuse.
- gremlinsinc 6y agoyeah like the pregnant lady who police shot tear gas into their car twice, even after the husband shouted STOP STOP my wife is pregnant! https://twitter.com/i/status/1267176238960922624 https://twitter.com/i/status/1267176238960922624