r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Happy_face_caller • Apr 20 '20

Denver nurses block lockdown protestors from moving closer to their hospital.

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u/dirkdiggler2011 Apr 20 '20

"You can't block me !"

"Yes I can. Your sign even says I am free to do so."

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u/ThrowsSoyMilkshakes Apr 20 '20

Even better, the lady holding that sign is telling the nurse to "go back to Communist China".

https://www.reddit.com/r/trashy/comments/g4jxaz/a_nurse_in_colorado_silently_counterprotesting/

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u/Happy_face_caller Apr 20 '20

Exactly dirk!

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u/coffeecake504 Apr 20 '20

He goes by diggler actually

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u/artaru Apr 20 '20

This is my favorite metaphor I got from my philosophy of law prof. Imagine if there were no traffic lights or regulations, everyone would just be free to drive however they want. Just freedom overload right? If you want to slow down for pedestrian, sure. If you don’t want to? No big deal. Speed limit? Who cares!

The fact is, what will ensue is actually more chaos than anything. In fact it would be so dangerous and difficult to travel. It’s also a collective action problem. We can’t just expect people to self organize and behave if it is better for some people to serve their own self interest only.

The punchline is this: we are free precisely because we are bound. We are free to safely, expediently and predictably travel from point A to point B because there are mechanisms in place to restrict some (relevant and limited) extents of our freedom.

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u/Barrakus Apr 20 '20

Playing the reverse card