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Thursday 18 April 2019

When is a moral protest immoral?


London has been brought to a standstill by protesters who are campaigning that more needs to be done to address climate change.

Some of the actions they have taken are interesting, such as encouraging the use of vehicles when they disrupted public transport.  And while I agree that the actions that are taking place to combat global warming and also the way we are polluting our planet are woefully inadequate, I disagree with the methods.

Others have different values and disruptive protests for different values which I disagree with have taken place, and will no doubt take place again.  And if the current protests are to be tolerated, then the same must apply to protests by organisations like the far right.

So while I agree with the aims of these protesters, I have to disagree with the methods.