Quote Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy View Post
I'm going to say something which will probably be unpopular. It depends what is being protested. Protests aren't limited to attempts at self-expression or demonstrating numbers in a governmental system which is very concerned with populr numbers. Protests are historically a method of resistance. Labor strikes and picket lines are a form of protest and a demonstration of resistance. The historical civil rights protests are another. People are SUPPOSED to be discommoded by them. They are an attempt at persuasion and coercion to the protestor's position. You're here objecting to the idea that blocking a road could put someone's life at risk. That's regrettable but you know what? Black lives matter too. It is just as or more regrettable that we keep seeing these overzealous to outright unlawful shootings by police of black people, a number of whom shouldn't have ever had the police's attention at all. If someone else's life being at risk is what it takes to make an impact, to help put a stop to this behavior, than you know maybe that IS acceptable. Cold hard utilitarian functionalism. Those lives you're championing aren't worth any more than the ones which have already been lost and which protesting is trying to get stopped. And the ability to get somewhere on time and without inconvenience is certainly worth far less.
The thing with civil disobedience is that there is a cost for everyone, the protestors of the past didn't just inconvenience others but took (and were prepared to take) consequences for themselves. The idea of civil disobedience is not to do whatever you want and everyone to give you a free pass for it.

EDIT: OG is quite right.