Uncomfortable with the "this man paid for the seat" narrative. Wealth utilization shouldn't be the guard against state violence.
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also the chants of "he's a Doctor! Kick off a spring breaker!" which is also a very privileged position imho
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No, I hold this view because physician time is irreplaceable because our healthcare system is broken.
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A rescheduled visit can mean 3 months or more. That's irreplaceable in healthcare terms.
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Agreed. I just don't like the idea of ranking the importance of passengers.
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I mean that's a totally synthetic position. The fuselage of an airplane doesn't indemnify us from how our society is formed.
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Some people's careers are more "important" because their work affects lives directly, sometimes at scale. That's always been the case.
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I understand this. I also feel a certain way, mostly because I don't trust companies or politicians to understand or care about nuance.
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but yes, I totally *understand*. I wish the difference between theory and practice wasn't so huge.
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Perhaps thoughtlessly, I read it as shorthand for an agreed-upon contract, but point taken.
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I think most people who say that just mean that he had committed no crime and entered into an agreement to have a seat. So he should have 1
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No, I alwasy understood it as opposed to if, for example, he had not had any boarding pass and had entered the plane illegally.
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I think the intent was to establish that he was in his seat legitimately. In retrospect it would have been better to say that directly.
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