[ExI] Protest

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:44 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I'm not so sure - especially if you count the lasting effect of changes
that would not have happened if not for the protests.

This particular coronavirus will kill a number of people this year, and
probably a number next year, perhaps also more than zero in 2022.

Racism has been cutting lives short for over a century.
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