Frosstbyte

So not supporting the right of people who believe one thing to trample the rights of other people who believe something else means that I'm a backwards moron who is against all forms of social progress and protest?

There is a DIFFERENCE between the right to gather and speak and protest and protesting which destroys property or trespasses on property or otherwise violates the rights of others. I don't know why you've reduced this conversation to the absurd extreme that free speech should only take place in a desert far away from everything else, because I don't think that anyone is saying that. I have a healthy respect for the environment and the cause for clean energy.

You may respect people who blindly adhere to a cause regardless of their impact on others. I respect people who have respect for other people. These people don't and are so consumed with their misplaced entitlement to be the savior of the world that they're willing to deprive other, random people of their time and money and ability to conduct their lives as they wish. Lucifer's a guy making a living who wanted some well earned free time off his ship. They're so caught up with "sending a message" that they've totally ignored the fact that real, normal people like them want other things out of life, and in fact they relish disrupting these people's lives.

If thinking that it sucks for people to pull that shit with very limited consequences, then I guess I'm exactly what you're describing. I think there are ways to effect change, but I think that what these people did (and any similar action) is not one of them. I guess I'm small, petty and selfish. Sorry for not being more globally minded.