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The harm is in the cost. Not the actual danger. Or are they going to pay for the damages caused due to lost productivity?

• account42 18d ago
  Protests are much less effective if they can just be ignored. At the very least "lost productivity" is a very abstract harm and not something that endangers human lives directly.
  • avianlyric 17d ago
    That does depend on the productivity being lost. No doubt many of the people who were unable to commute that day would have been doctors and nurses. I think it would be of a stretch to actually claim that this specific incident caused loss of life, but it’s possible to see how such wide sabotage, especially conducted over a number of days, could result in compromised emergency services and result in loss of life. Protests also tend to be more effective if the protesters involved actually make some clear demands about what they want. Simply breaking shit isn’t much of a protest.
  • preisschild 16d ago
    But its also not reasonable to let someone having grievances block the entire country. The farming industry is 1% of GDP in NL. Why do they get to hold the entire country hostage?