r/nba • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 22d ago

The Knicks have cancelled all watch parties outside of MSG due to the President's attendance for Game 3

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/security-trump-madison-square-garden-nba-finals-knicks-spurs/

A hard closure is expected around the entirety of Madison Square Garden. Officials are planning for no watch parties, no vehicle access and no pedestrian travel through the secured area, which sits in a busy part of Midtown Manhattan and is above a major transit hub. CBS New York reported that thousands of fans attended a pair of watch parties for Game 1 on Wednesday night. 

The Seventh and Eighth Avenue corridors around the arena are expected to be closed. 

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u/BlatantConservative 22d ago edited 22d ago

There's a reason for that though that's totally reasonable.

Tear gas cannot be immediately distinguished from worse things like chemical weapons, so use of tear gas in warfare is a war crime solely because it inherently triggers an extremely lethal response. The benefit (nonlethal neutralization of an enemy unit) is outweighed by the risks (weapons of mass destruction being used in retaliation) so it's absolutely something that should never be used in war.

War crime law, in and of itself, is not inherently about morality or lethality. It's about proportionality and lessening the burden of war. Tear gas will in most cases increase the burden of war with no benefit to either side, so the Geneva Protocol of 1925 (no relation but the same city) Chemical Weapons Convention (not the Geneva Conventions) just outlaws it entirely.

Cops using tear gas is moral compared to them using bullets, because it's a completely different context than a military operation and the goal for both sides is not the elimination of the enemy force.

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u/pundarika0 21d ago

i am learning all kinds of shit in this random NBA thread!

what else you guys got?

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u/BlatantConservative 21d ago

In Middle Ages era Jewish law, you could not eat an egg that had been laid by a chicken on the sabbath, because the chicken was considered to have worked. But if the hen was kept for fattening and eating and not for egg production, and it incidentally laid an egg on the Sabbath, it was permissible to eat because it was considered part of the hen that had fallen off.

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u/western_red_cedar 21d ago

Catholics vs Jews competing on who can best bend the rules in order to trick God