> After all, you can't shout fire in a crowded theatre because it would harm the public good. How does it "harm the public good" to shout fire in a crowded the

> After all, you can't shout fire in a crowded theatre because it would harm the public good. How does it "harm the public good" to shout fire in a crowded theater when there actually is a fire? What? Your public good rule is more complex? That's your plan to avoid the law of unintended consequences? (Of course, many of those so-called unintended consequences aren't actually unintended so much as things that one isn't willing to argue for.)