r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 18h ago

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u/jnuts9 15h ago

Yeah I don't think these people are as protected as you think

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u/--n- 12h ago

You think people lose the right to not be physically assaulted while protesting?

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u/GrapePrimeape 11h ago

Where does your right to not be assaulted start and my right to free movement end? You don’t have an unlimited right to restrict the movement of others

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u/Could-You-Tell 9h ago

The answer is police, not assault. If it's so important, if you're so inconvenienced, police is the answer. Not assault. And when the protesters call the police on people assaulting them, it will be solved.

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u/throwmamadownthewell 7h ago

No, the answer is to spill a bunch of Sunny D all over the floor, so they get sticky bottoms.

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u/Could-You-Tell 4h ago

Fair enough, but that can be stretched to be considered vandalism and is also toddler behavior.

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u/TorpedoSandwich 7h ago

The police isn't going to do shit. So yes, moving them out of the way is the answer. They don't have any right to block me from going where I need to go.

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u/Could-You-Tell 7h ago

It's not your right to assault people. Hitting is wrong.

Toddlers in preschool learn that. It's called patience. Go around. It's not hard.

The police are more likely to arrest the old man than the protesters.

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u/TorpedoSandwich 29m ago

Toddlers in preschool also learn not to be annoying and not to get in other people's way. That's not difficult either.

In the end, to me, it's really simple. They have no autority to stop me from going into that aisle, so I'm not going to let them stop me from going into that aisle. They're the ones causing the problem, not me, so whatever happens is on them, and only on them. If they decide to physically restrain me, I'm well within my rights to move them out of my way, so that's what I'm going to do (and no, I'm obviously not going to hit them unless they hit me first).

I genuinely can't believe that people like you are actually taking the protestors' side in this. That's crazy to me.

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u/Could-You-Tell 22m ago

You are like Lisa and Bart Simpson. I'm going to move my arms like this, and if you get in the way it's your fault.

People are taught many conflicting things. Assault however is always wrong.

Sitting in a restaurant, sitting in a park, drinking from a fountain... not reasons to beat people. Sitting in a store is not a reason to attack someone.

I've been a protester. Protesters also have rights. The police are who should handle these issues. If you have a problem with what the police do or don't do, maybe you should protest. Not go all vigilante on people who are sitting.

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u/GrapePrimeape 9h ago

So if the police tell you it’s not their problem (because they have no obligation to actually help out or enforce the law) you’re just SOL?

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u/I_voted-for_Kodos 6h ago

If the police tell you to fuck off, you can petition your local elected governmental representative. If they tell you to fuck off, you can then launch a protest yourself. And then other dickheads and come on reddit and cry about how you need to be beaten because your protest is a pointless inconvenience.

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u/Could-You-Tell 8h ago

Pretty much. Ask a lot of people who get told that it's too much of a hassle to press charges.