How I feel about this is incredibly complicated, I actually completely agree it's a bad choice, not because it is wrong, not because it is counterproductive, but because it is _not needed_. Let me just walk though it:
First, the use of fire:
NO.
Just NO. Do not start fires except under the specific circumstances that the fire will be controlled. Like a fireplace, or a specifically designed campfire or bonfire. And, once started, it is your job to control it. Not sure why I have to explain this to human being who have, presumably, lived on this planet and know how fire works. Pretty basic human knowledge we've all been known about for hundred of thousands of years, if not longer.
Second, the damage of specific individual property:
Is this person, in some manner, harming you? Is what you are doing proportional to this harm? The answers to attacking someone's individual Tesla are: Probably not, and certainly not. Arguably, they gave money to Elon. Individually, it's not a significant amount, and we don't generally think it's proportional to cause them that much harm in retribution.
Third, the damage of Telsas at dealerships (in a way that does not involve uncontrolled fire):
Let's pretend, for a second, that Elon is a wealthy person doing everything he's doing (For those who just said 'He is that, right?' hold on.) Elon is part of an presidential administration that is literally renditioning people without trials to a foreign gulag. He doesn't get to participate normally in society anymore, sorry.
If some people have decided that means damaging his stuff, I'm not going to oppose it. That feels like an entirely reasonable level of political pushback to an actual fascist government, which is what we have right now. Assuming, of course, they damage _his_ stuff and not other people's, and also do not idiotic use fire.
Except we don't really need to do that. Why?
The protests themselves are enough.
Which is a strange thing for me to say, because protests and boycotts of companies like this almost never actually work, and the way that they do work is usually by forcing the media to talk about wrongdoing or getting other people uncomfortable. And the media is going to keep talking about the Trump administration exactly as much as it already was, no more and no less, and the protests certainly aren't going to stop or change Elon, who is a drugged-out manic lunatic. So in theory, this protest is pointless.
Except the 'get other people uncomfortable' is tanking the stock price. Which will destroy Elon.
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How I feel about this is incredibly complicated, I actually completely agree it's a bad choice, not because it is wrong, not because it is counterproductive, but because it is _not needed_. Let me just walk though it:
First, the use of fire:
NO.
Just NO. Do not start fires except under the specific circumstances that the fire will be controlled. Like a fireplace, or a specifically designed campfire or bonfire. And, once started, it is your job to control it. Not sure why I have to explain this to human being who have, presumably, lived on this planet and know how fire works. Pretty basic human knowledge we've all been known about for hundred of thousands of years, if not longer.
Second, the damage of specific individual property:
Is this person, in some manner, harming you? Is what you are doing proportional to this harm? The answers to attacking someone's individual Tesla are: Probably not, and certainly not. Arguably, they gave money to Elon. Individually, it's not a significant amount, and we don't generally think it's proportional to cause them that much harm in retribution.
Third, the damage of Telsas at dealerships (in a way that does not involve uncontrolled fire):
Let's pretend, for a second, that Elon is a wealthy person doing everything he's doing (For those who just said 'He is that, right?' hold on.) Elon is part of an presidential administration that is literally renditioning people without trials to a foreign gulag. He doesn't get to participate normally in society anymore, sorry.
If some people have decided that means damaging his stuff, I'm not going to oppose it. That feels like an entirely reasonable level of political pushback to an actual fascist government, which is what we have right now. Assuming, of course, they damage _his_ stuff and not other people's, and also do not idiotic use fire.
Except we don't really need to do that. Why?
The protests themselves are enough.
Which is a strange thing for me to say, because protests and boycotts of companies like this almost never actually work, and the way that they do work is usually by forcing the media to talk about wrongdoing or getting other people uncomfortable. And the media is going to keep talking about the Trump administration exactly as much as it already was, no more and no less, and the protests certainly aren't going to stop or change Elon, who is a drugged-out manic lunatic. So in theory, this protest is pointless.
Except the 'get other people uncomfortable' is tanking the stock price. Which will destroy Elon.