University Ethics experts are convening a conference to consider:
Do protesters marching on a road have the right to step over protesters lying down on the road? Is there an ethical hierarchy of protest? Lying down vs marching upright -- who gets precedence?
Do drivers on the road have the right to drive on a road? Can they marginalize marchers by getting out and kicking them to the curb?
Experts on free speech are divided about elitism in Street March Culture. (Is street protest systemically racialized?)
Should governments mandate that employers give workers one day off per month with marcher-pay? (The unemployed protest that this privileges people who work for a living, and is inequitable for non-workers.)
Statistics show businesses are closing for lack of staff because young people prefer protests to jobs. Marchers claim PTSD stemming from the stresses they're protesting about, while employers and drivers express alternative PTSD and chant to protesters: Put The Signs Down.
Career Protesters are particularly fond of the intersectionalism of intersections, where the maximum number of drivers, businesses and customers can be blocked, inconvenienced and counter-triggered.
