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But what is the limiting principle? Once you allow yourself to cause disruption and hurt people, when is it too far?

• Latty 5y ago
  A good question I don't think there is an easy answer to, and one that depends on how you perceive the action being protested and the protest action. A recent case in the UK involved people vandalising (throwing into a river) a statue. It was charged as a crime but they were found not guilty by a jury (in what most believe was an act of jury nullification). There are a lot of loud people who felt this was disproportionate, but when it came down to it, a randomly selected jury from the UK clearly felt it was justifiable. If my government was doing something morally abhorrent, that justifies greater disruption in the name of trying to stop it. Given there is no obvious way to judge the objective moral value of things, let alone one consistent across people, there will never be a hard rule about what is correct. If we say there can be no justification for disruptive protest, then we lose the ability of the people to fight back against a tyrannical government doing things against the will of the population.