A couple more weak arguments pointing towards protesting now:
if protest success depends on number of people, the fact that many people are currently out of work may make current protests more likely to succeed.
if protests are about demonstrating strength of feeling, then saying (with one’s actions) ‘I care enough about this to risk a deadly disease’ arguably does that pretty effectively.
There’s also the question of whether protesting meaningfully affects the election, if so the effect size of that could dwarf everything else, but I don’t have any idea which way it cuts and can see good arguments in both directions.
Thanks, this is exactly the kind of response I’d like to see.
I agree that the first point points in a pro-protesting direction. The second might also but I am uneasy about it (for a young person, most of the impact of their getting sick is infecting others, so the actual message is “I care enough about this to risk giving others a deadly disease”, which is somewhat less attractive). I agree that the third could go either way.
(Notably, the third point makes rioting an even more terrible idea than I already thought it was.)
A couple more weak arguments pointing towards protesting now:
if protest success depends on number of people, the fact that many people are currently out of work may make current protests more likely to succeed.
if protests are about demonstrating strength of feeling, then saying (with one’s actions) ‘I care enough about this to risk a deadly disease’ arguably does that pretty effectively.
There’s also the question of whether protesting meaningfully affects the election, if so the effect size of that could dwarf everything else, but I don’t have any idea which way it cuts and can see good arguments in both directions.
Thanks, this is exactly the kind of response I’d like to see.
I agree that the first point points in a pro-protesting direction. The second might also but I am uneasy about it (for a young person, most of the impact of their getting sick is infecting others, so the actual message is “I care enough about this to risk giving others a deadly disease”, which is somewhat less attractive). I agree that the third could go either way.
(Notably, the third point makes rioting an even more terrible idea than I already thought it was.)