Frosstbyte

Protesters have the right to protest, but they also have the obligation to deal with logical consequences. Furthermore, their right to protest without consequences is limited by their tacit agreement to protest without infringing on the rights of others. That is to say, when you infringe the rights of others in a society, society punishes you for that action.

Protesters, simply because they have a political message, should not be free from having to take on the burdens caused by their protests where it infringes on the rights of other people. They should be willing to take responsibility for accidental deaths or property damage caused by the actions, they should be willing to take criminal consequences and they should be financially liable for the losses incurred by those on whose property rights they infringe. Like in contract law, this would be damages for sufficiently clear losses as opposed to the ambiguity of "future profits."

Protest all you want-but if you board a ship and someone dies trying to rescue you or the company has to pay to maintain a ship an extra, unnecessary day because of your actions or your die because you fell into the water, that's YOUR burden, not society's and not the person whose rights you invaded.