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There's no one "stopping you" from robbing a person you've cornered in an alley, do you have the authority to rob them?
by CatWChainsaw 3y ago
There's no one "stopping you" from robbing a person you've cornered in an alley, do you have the authority to rob them?
- micromacrofoot 3y agoThe other person, the police, the law... my point is that no one's going to stop humanity from geoengineering the planet, in fact we already have. There are no mechanisms preventing humanity from having this authority. We will do it, just as we have done it. It's not hubris, it's just reality. The "how dare we" argument is a waste of time and will not stop it.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoI'll explicitly spell out the other assumptions of the scenario since you chose to miss them. If you've cornered someone in an alleyway, you have overpowered them, there are no police or bystanders to physically interfere, and "the law" isn't going to manifest as Captain America and beat you like a mook in some comic strip. You would get away with what society calls a crime. Nothing is stopping you from robbing that person. Do you have the authority to?