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Originally Posted by Rococo
I am surprised at how many people like sublime and chillrob are in favor of the death penalty for deliberately obstructing traffic.
Does that apply to motorists who "block the box" or to people who illegally double park in order to deliver furniture, etc., or is this rule limited to pedestrians?
What if a stunningly beautiful person induces rubbernecking by walking nude along the side of the highway? Straight to the gallows?
Is the right to kill limited to the motorist who is being delayed? Or should I be allowed to snipe a political protester if I correctly judge that he is impeding you as a motorist?
I'm not in favor of the death penalty for that - I strongly support the police arresting those people, and them being charged with a crime, but it wouldn't come with extremely long prison sentences, much less the death penalty.
I am in favor of those people (after a quick warning) being moved out of the way by force. Ideally it would be done quickly by police, but if not I'm fine with a delayed motorist doing the moving. If the protestors have any sense at all, they will get out of the way quickly and not suffer any injuries. Those stupid (or, I suppose, principled) enough not to do so may very well incur serious injuries, and possibly even death. This is not nearly equivalent to imposing the death penalty on them.
In the examples you give of vehicles blocking traffic, the driver should be ticketed and the vehicle immediately moved, by towing if necessary.
Anyone walking on the side of the highway, naked or not, should be arrested if walking is illegal beside that highway (as in all interstate highways in the US).
There are already laws against public nudity, which I think are pretty silly and should not exist.