You and me. We're in this together.

[andrewducker]

John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wearing "Suspected Terrorist" button.

I'm glad that someone has the moral pigheadedness to stand up for themselves. Because I suspect that I wouldn't.

Comments

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

It means that about 60% of the population will never fly again...

And wouldn't that be great? :-) Both ecologically and socially...

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Oh, :P

Argument-twisting witch. Yes, it would, but I'm not sure that's the best criterion, not least because I might not qualify.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Yes, it would, but I'm not sure that's the best criterion, not least because I might not qualify.

Hmmm... I dunno. Let's say everyone gets one free trip (past their 16th birthday, it would be unfair to penalise children) on each form of transport available to them. If they cause trouble on that trip, they can be banned. (Trouble could include "unreasonably reporting others" - so that a racist who reports a Middle Eastern type for "flying while Muslim" would get banned for being a troublemaker.) You can appeal an unreasonable banning. A banning wears off after 5 years. If you get banned 3 times, though, it never wears off....

Okay, so it wouldn't really work.... This is what amused me about an earlier poster's comment: so far from having "a slavish compulsion to obey" I actually want to be World Dictator.

But you make good points (as usual) and now I'm not sure whether I'm right any more. Need to go away and think about this some more.

[andrewducker]

Not socially as far as I'm concerned. The ability to move long distances has allowed numerous people I know to make contact with people that they are far more socially suited to than the people in their local area.

Distributed societies are great, but being able to meet the distributed people is even better.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

There are other methods of travelling long-distance to meet friends that don't entail the same kind of environmental destructiveness as regular air travel.

[andrewducker]

You said Both ecologically and socially...

and you'll get not argument from me on the ecological side of things. Just on the social...

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

There are other methods of travelling long-distance to meet friends that don't entail the same kind of environmental destructiveness as regular air travel.