[ExI] yelling fire

[William Flynn Wallace]

Solution - when there is a fire in the theater, pipe gunshot sounds over
the loudspeaker system.  And call your lawyers.  bill w

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 12:03 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Dave Sill via extropy-chat
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> Conclusion: you can yell fire in a crowded theatre… spike
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> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater
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> Doing that did cause a significant number of deaths a hundred or more
> years ago. As a justification for not allowing anti-draft pamphlets to be
> distributed, it's not such a great argument.
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> -Dave
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> Ja.  I didn’t really mean to segue into a free-speech discussion, but
> rather to point out that there isn’t much that can cause a fatal human
> stampede left, other than gunshots.  Modern people go into a total panic at
> the sound of gunshots, but not the threat of being trapped in a burning
> building, the risk of which has gone down so dramatically that we don’t
> even worry about it anymore.  People do freak out over gunshots.
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> spike
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