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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
You didn't answer my second question. Does the golden gate incident, assuming it actually did stop an ambulance with a patient who will now die, reach that level?
I don't know what I would do if I were the ambulance driver, but as a matter of policy, I think that there is social value in not directly incentivizing the ambulance drivers of the world to implement rough justice in the moment.
From a policy perspective, if a protester has reasonable grounds to believe that he is blocking the path of emergency vehicles like an ambulance, and he has reasonable ground to believe that, by doing so, he is endangering someone's life, then I would be open to the idea that the protester could and should be prosecuted for a negligent or reckless homicide.
In the most extreme example, if an ambulance were in direct view of the protesters, with lights on and with the driver yelling over the loudspeaker that he has a heart attack victim in the back, I think it would be reprehensible for the protesters to not allow passage for the ambulance. That feels like a serious crime to me, regardless of how just or unjust the protesters believe their cause to be.
Last edited by Rococo; 04-17-2024 at 03:16 PM.