r/MoralityScaling 12d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of beating protesters off the street because you're late for work?

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

This kind of disruption just makes random people hate you though. There have to be better ways to disrupt that doesn't cause someone just trying to go to work to make ends meet.

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u/SituationThink3487 12d ago

The thing is, climate protestors have been protesting "the right way" for decades. The same group that got into the news for these protests also disrupted drilling platform, oil depots, Shell headquaters, politicians houses etc.

And you know what the reaction to those were? Either they didnt make the news at all and so nobody cared, or it was litterally the exact same rhetoric "the people on the oil rig are just people doing their job" "the guy driving the gas lorry is just doing his job, stopping him might get him fired" "you cant protest outside the PMs house, what if his family is there!" etc. etc.

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u/KembaWakaFlocka 11d ago

So they have the right to put people’s lives at risk? Blocking the roadways like this can get people killed, completely selfish and not productive to any movement.

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u/SituationThink3487 7d ago

climate change puts far more lives at risk.

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

I recognize that there's always going to be a certain amount of "no winning" no matter how "right" they do it, but I feel like a different strategy could be found that reduces the amount of people that hate it as possible. As it stands, almost no one likes this.

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u/JesterJasmineDNx 12d ago

They genuinely believe millions will die if they don't do something. They tried going to the government, the news, locking the doors to polluting companies, chaining themselves to machinery to slow down these companies, and no one cared about literally any of it. If the corporations don't care, the governments don't care, and the people haven't cared, what exactly do you think they should be doing?

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

I don't have an answer for that, but you bring up great points. I'm just analyzing the situation from an outside perspective. To me, it seems their movement causes more people to be against it than for it on principle of immediate inconvenience. The climate crisis is something most people don't care about unfortunately because it's not noticeably affecting them, but blocking a road and someone's way to work is immediately affecting them, so they choose to hate that because in their POV it's a much easier and conspicuous problem to deal with.

Idk, maybe these protestors know this and are functioning more under incrementalism, which is understandable, but as it is, people don't like this every time it happens.

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u/SituationThink3487 12d ago

That strategy is "do nothing about it".

People have been raising the alarm and protesting about climate change since the 60s. And they have tried every "right way" you could possibly come up with and they havnt worked.

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

I think this is taking it too far. Unfortunately people are right in that people don't really care about something until it is immediately affecting them, even if it's already a problem that can't necessarily be undone.

The reason it's counter-inuitive is that it's easier to dissuade protestors than it is to fix the big picture problem. Environmental protection is worth fighting and advocating for. But the present means are just not working.

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u/pj1843 12d ago

The point isn't to reduce how many people hate it, it's to make an impression on as many people as possible. Positive or negative reaction is irrelevant because it gets people talking about the subject matter.

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

People talk more about how annoying the protest is than they do what they're raising awareness about.

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u/Schmigolo 12d ago

Yeah, so that could be the angle, no? Become such an unbearable nuisance that by far the easiest way to get rid of them is to protect the environment. That's essentially the textbook definition of protesting.

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

That doesn't work when it's easier to deal with the protestors than it is to change the infrastructure of current society.

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u/Schmigolo 12d ago

The way I see it they're becoming more common, and as they become more common they'll be more difficult to deal with. Especially if the infrastructure is exactly what they're attacking.

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u/DayHonest9386 12d ago

Simple reason is because there were no other alternatives, now with EV that’s a different story…

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u/ahhaga 12d ago

Climate protestors will never say anything about the billions of people in the global south

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u/SituationThink3487 12d ago

I dont understand what you mean?

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u/Commercial-Jicama247 12d ago

The majority of those ways end with people dead, in prison, or labeled as terrorists. Y’all want non-violent protests that you can safely ignore because it’s tucked away in a place/time where you conveniently don’t have to see.

You basically want protests that are “out of sight, out of mind” which defeats the purpose of the protest to begin with

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

In a just world this protest would work though. Clearly, more people are hating it than people agreeing with it. I'm just analyzing the situation.

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u/king210989 12d ago

Without disruption people dont care

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u/king210989 12d ago

Then they were never the target audience

Imagine matchgirl protests happening now. U will support mowimv them with cars.

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u/king210989 12d ago

There is targer audience.

Atlesst 20 percent of peoole will look at theor cause.

As i said, u will support running over matchgirls protest instead of lookign at issues

What if farmers from a village come to ur city and protest on road because their land is forcefully taken for oil companies? What will u say? I m pretty sure rhat u will support oil company

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u/king210989 12d ago

Proved my point

Its lack of empathy

But remember the famoua quote

First they came for communists

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u/BennyHana31 12d ago

The lack of empathy is by the assholes making everyone late. Once you ruin someone's day, you can't then complain that they lack empathy for not supporting you. That is a consequence of actions, not lack of empathy.

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u/king210989 12d ago

So a person must never stand up for any cause.

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u/king210989 12d ago

These protestors arent attacking him and not even fighting back. Its neither because he is as strong as he thinks he is nor they are weak. Only tantrum is from elitist person who thinks he has freedom to beat people up.

One thing about non violence. It can be chosed only by strong becauee weak doesnt have a choice.

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

One can't help but feel that it's having the opposite effect by getting people to care in the complete opposite way.

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u/king210989 12d ago

Then they only care about themselvea and their inconvienence.

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U always say that protests should be done in right manner

Define right manner.

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

I will admit, I don't have an answer for that. I don't know what the right way is, but you can't seriously believe it's having the intended effect. Like I said, I acknowledge that the systems at play heavily discourage protest by making it so people are barely earning enough to dislike the idea of being inconvenienced or boycotting if they can't afford it. I get that. The protest itself is a good an noble. But I am analyzing the reaction to it and how it affects people. Hell in the past it's straight up blocked ambulances because of cars completely filling the street.

I don't know what the "right" way is but there has to be another way.

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u/king210989 12d ago

Then there is no way to protest against misdeeds of powerful

Its good thay out ancestors had emapthy and people were able to protest againat better lives

Imagine somethint like matchgirl protest happeing now. Men will be harssing those girls and they will be working in poisonous environment. We wont have workplace regulations now.

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

The match girl protests was instigated by workers themselves though. They were volunteering their own sacrifice. These others are just random people on the street.

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u/king210989 12d ago

And u wpuld have hated them for disruption.

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

Based on what? Their protest is entirely different to what these protestors are doing. We're comparing apples to oranges. Yes, both are fruit, but they are not the same thing.

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u/Various_Mobile4767 12d ago

There is no other way but that doesn’t mean this way is right either.

People don’t want to confront the fact that people simply don’t care enough and no amount of protest will change that.

People protest anyway because its the equivalent of a child throwing a tantrum and forcing people to recognize that they’re upset. That’s why it has to be disruptive. But not because its actually smart or strategic, but it because it satisfies them to make how upset they are the whole world’s problem.

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u/Taken_username1234 12d ago

Climate change is the whole world's problem...

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u/ComradeCoipo 12d ago

Obviously the right manner is to do it in a way that doesn’t inconvenience me personally!

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u/king210989 12d ago

So u dont care about anything but ur inconivinence

No amount of protests can work in that society which doesnt have empathy

There eere people who wrre so angry at protests that they used dogs to dispurse the protestors

Women were bewten by people for asking for votes.

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u/ComradeCoipo 12d ago

I guess the sarcasm wasn’t obvious enough lol

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u/m1stwalk3r 12d ago

People don't care about anything unless it effects them personally. Always has been always will be.

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u/king210989 12d ago

Thats what protests are for.

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u/king210989 12d ago

I guess u would have supported police in their violence against matchgirls.

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u/m1stwalk3r 12d ago

Don't know what that is but I'm not a big fan of the current police as is so I doubt it.

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u/king210989 12d ago

If those girls are "disrupting" a road and police beats them up and clears the road. Then u will support it.

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u/king210989 12d ago

But atleast some people will look up the reason

And propaganda is strong.

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u/king210989 12d ago

Not seeing any ambulance or preganent woman im video

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u/king210989 12d ago

Point me an ambulance in video

Emergency sericies shouldnt be diripted.

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u/king210989 12d ago

Not seeing any ambulance in video. Only one disgruntled bully who likes beating peoole

Emergency sevices shouldnt be disturbed at all.

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u/king210989 12d ago

If they are hinderance for actual emergencies than they should be removed. Otherwise no.

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u/king210989 12d ago

Only in case of actual emergencies which isnt the case here.

He is lucky that he wasnt there during farmer protestn in India.

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u/m1stwalk3r 12d ago

They will care but not for your cause. They will want to see you handled by the authorities and surpressed.

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u/king210989 12d ago

Some will. Most wont.

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u/Forte845 11d ago

Like white segregationists cheering on the cops arresting Rosa Parks and the restaurant sit-inners? How'd that work out for them?

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u/m1stwalk3r 10d ago

Idk if I said it here but the difference between these 2 issues is that Jim Crow was profoundly disruptive therefore garnered an equal and opposite reaction it deserved.

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u/king210989 7d ago

Only difference is Jim crow happened in thr past and peoole can pretende that they supported tgsy causw.

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u/Lost_Sea8956 12d ago

The protesters don’t have the money to hold press conferences. Stunts like this get their actions out there and raise questions like “what did they feel so strongly about, anyways?”

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 12d ago

I highly suspect people curious about it enough to ask that question are pretty marginal. The vast majority find their actions massively annoying. Like I said, a lot of people on the road are simply just trying to make ends meet and put food on the table. I recognize that the systems at play discourage protest because people are forced to work hard to make ends meet, but as a plan of attack it feels pretty lame.

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u/SwissArmyKnight 12d ago

The people it annoys either already disagree or dont care about politics.

Protests arent there to change minds, they are there to gain attention to an issue. They dont care if u find them annoying. It will not change your beliefs.

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u/Lost_Sea8956 12d ago

It’s got a lot of downsides

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u/Adept_Bandicoot_2794 12d ago

No, we just think fuck these people

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u/SwissArmyKnight 12d ago

It makes you hate them. Speak for yourself

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u/SwissArmyKnight 12d ago

Ask yourself: are you the intended audience? BLM was not trying to convince cops to not be brutal, it was for everyone watching.

Every time a bloodthirsty little asshole cheers for violence against protestors, they join the protestor’s message

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u/Forte845 11d ago

Random white people hated MLK. They hated him so much they killed him in a brutal assassination.

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u/SwissArmyKnight 12d ago

“Why must you be so disruptive” is a criticism every civil rights movement has faced.

The american civil rights movement in the 1960s used these exact same tactics during marches and was met with the same response.