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by DSMan195276 4189 days ago
> Driving on a road also blocks other cars from driving on it at the same time.

Except it doesn't, because cars can share the road as long as all the cars keep moving. Of course, if you add too many cars people start to slow down, but that's an issue of the road being to small. This honestly isn't really much of a debatable point because there are lots of freeways that have minimum speed limits, meaning that if a car is blocking the road by going to slow (or stopped), it's breaking the speed limit and thus breaking the law, only for the reason of going to slow. Thus, it is illegal to block the road in such a way. The only times that it would be legal is if it you applied for a permit (Which they didn't do here).

Again, we come back to the library example. Is it legal for people to stand and block others from entering a library? Yes they're legally allowed to stand in-front of the library doors, but at what point does it infringe on the rights of others to use the library and become illegal?

The entire thing reminds me of this quote:

> "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."

  - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.