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Reply #11: Saying they were planning to, saying that it should be, all of their actions were
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Sun Sep-19-10 09:53 PM
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11. Saying they were planning to, saying that it should be, all of their actions were |
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free speech and protest. I don't see it as a the 'fire' analogy at all: there is the element of choice for the people who were expected to respond violently, and it's not reasonable to me to argue that a person can't protest because someone else might misbehave. In the fire/theater situation, there is really only one logical response (escape), and in that circumstance it's reasonable to blame the person who falsely raise the alarm for any injury during the escape attempt...
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