[ExI] Protest

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Fri Jun 12 04:42:23 UTC 2020


On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 13:39, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:18 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> What I find disturbing about the Black Lives Matter protests around the
>> world is that participants seem to think black lives don’t matter if death
>> is due to the coronavirus.
>>
>
> The coronavirus does not consciously treat black lives as not mattering.
> It kills humans approximately the same regardless of their skin color
> (after controlling for local health care, disparities in which are more an
> issue of wealth inequality than skin color).
>

Protesting crowds will propagate the virus, killing some of those infected.
The protestors presumably know this, but decide to protest anyway. It would
make sense if more lives were likely to be saved by protesting than lost,
but I don’t think anyone could reasonably argue that that would be the case.

> --
Stathis Papaioannou
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