How simplistic is that? Then some nut can yell fire in a crowded theater & sit back & state it was free speech! I would hate that person yelled fire & call him an ahole! There we are both happy now except the dozens or more piled up dead at the exits!
— Mr. Incognito (@immrincognito) April 14, 2022
It's probably a good idea to always assume leftists are lying. They really almost always are. 99.9% of the words out of the mouth of every leftist is a complete fabrication of reality. A man who tells you that Putin disproves religion is somebody who you can never trust. So if he yells the theatre is on fire, just believe it as much as anything else he says.
That being said, next time you are bored and in a "crowded theatre" (whenever that happens), you can totally yell out "fire!" I've done it, and I'll give you a little hint: absolutely nothing happens.
This being the 21st century of course you don't have to even yell. Just pull the fire alarm (which is essentially yelling 'fire' over and over again in a crowded theatre) and watch in shock and horror as...people barely do anything. Last month I was in West Edmonton Mall when the fire alarm went off, and people went about their day continuing to shop for almost 20 minutes before the alarm was turned off. Nobody died at the exits, or even piled up and survived.
Typically when somebody "shouts fire" in a modern building, the only danger of anybody dying is that everybody ignores what you and/or the alarm is saying, and might die in the event there's an actual fire.
Of course, most of the time you read about "fire in a crowded theatre" you'll learn that in the United States that jurisprudence was already overturned a half century ago, that the ruling's original purpose was to imprison progressives who opposed government policy, etc etc etc.
As Cosh notes, this is now extremely well-known as a lazy and inaccurate trope, which is why Incognito calling somebody "simplistic" before using the 'fire' analogy is particularly hilarious.
It's like "government is just a name to describe us all working together" (which, as that same Hitchens noted a quarter century ago, implies that in 1930s Germany a bunch of Jews committed suicide).
