| Comment | No, so maybe I am contradicting myself, but I do think a candlelit vigil during the Blitz would be the point where it is literally "Either we let these people protest, or everyone dies." In that cause, of course, it's screw your rights, we're not letting everyone die.
That is an extreme case however, similar perhaps to people protesting lockdown by going out and purposefully coughing on others, in which case I'd again contradict my argument and say jail them.
You could argue that this protest today is as bad as the other examples, in that it could potentially lead to someone dying. I think it's just far enough removed from that though. Let's say one of these people have COVID. No one who disagrees with them needs to go near this protest. If they infect everyone else at the protest, well, that's karma. They could of course then go and spread it to innocent people in supermarkets etc., but even then I and others have at least some ability to prevent that by being cautious.
You make a good point though, you've somewhat changed my opinion. |
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