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In theory a restaurant that is over capacity and catches on fire should be able to have everyone exit without death or injury. In practice, people panic and act
by pg_bot 4y ago
In theory a restaurant that is over capacity and catches on fire should be able to have everyone exit without death or injury. In practice, people panic and act in their own self interest leading to disaster.
- wahern 4y agoExcept often enough in such a situation everyone does exit orderly. People are generally predisposed to cooperate; it's what makes us human. The situations where panic prevails are the exception. What's the saying... success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan?
- chii 4y ago> everyone does exit orderly. this only happens when there's leadership present to which the rest get directed, and the crowd trusts the leadership to act with their interest in mind. E.g., a uniform wearing fire-warden, is often enough. If there's no such leadership, or they are acting (clearly) not in the interest of the "crowd", you will see panic and a failure to cooperate. This, not cooperation, is what makes humans truly humans.
- pcarolan 4y agoYou also can't yell fire in a crowded theater when there isn't one. You could make the argument that someone did.
- pg_bot 4y agoYou totally can do that, it's not illegal! Schenck v. United States is a pretty odious court case I wouldn't want to be on the censor's side in that one. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time-to-stop-using-the-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-quote/264449/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
- pixl97 4y agoNo you could not. LegalEagle did a video on this in the last week talking about that ruling that was overturned and doesn't apply to the vast majority of case law anyway.