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Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by adrianN on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:59AM (#20188768)
Without breaking laws and causing public nuisance India would still be part of the British Empire and African Americans would still be second class citizens. Climate change is a vastly more serious problem than either of those two.
Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by notahacker on Saturday June 15, 2019 @06:08AM (#20189256)
> Without breaking laws and causing public nuisance India would still be part of the British Empire and African Americans would still be second class citizens. Climate change is a vastly more serious problem than either of those two.

Sure, but it's also a vastly more complex problem. Those examples consisted of specific regimes which protestors wanted to change in specific ways, and making enforcing the law more trouble than it was worth for those regimes was a simple and logical route to achieving that change.

I don't see the same logical connection between the large-scale technological and institutional change across the entire globe needed to avert climate change and some guy in London with a drone ruining people's holidays.

If you're trying to achieve complex behavioural changes as opposed to rendering a bad law unenforceable, it's probably a good idea not to pursue a strategy consisting solely of irritating the general public.

Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by navigatesol on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:11AM (#20189066)
>Without breaking laws and causing public nuisance India would still be part of the British Empire and African Americans would still be second class citizens.

Every protest isn't the equivalent of India fighting for independence.

>Climate change is a vastly more serious problem than either of those two.

Fortunately, you don't get to decide which issues are "most important" to other people.

Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by adrianN on Saturday June 15, 2019 @01:31PM (#20191050)
Unfortunately with climate change nobody gets to decide, because physics decides for us.
Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by pbhjpbhj on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:41AM (#20189162)
So, you're saying global extinction isn't important?

It's a tough line to swallow from the GP, but I wasn't expecting anyone to disagree that human effected climate change was important. Surely it's the most important issue humans have faced, ever?

Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by tomhoward on Saturday June 15, 2019 @08:08AM (#20189624)
Problems can be profoundly serious and important in their own right, without needing to be ranked against one another.

Doing that just leads to emotion-charged-but-pointless arguments.

Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by zaroth on Saturday June 15, 2019 @07:09AM (#20189444)
Global extinction? No, we shouldn’t make trillion dollar policy decisions based on fairy tales.
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Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by samcday on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:24AM (#20188938)
This hypothetical situation is bordering on the absurd, I think. XR has made it abundantly clear what they intend to do, and when + how they intend to do it. I'm not going to say it's impossible, but I would venture that the chances of their actions causing a plane to go down are so extraordinarily slim that it's an utter waste of time to discuss the implications of it happening.