And what level of responsibility would this community take upon itself? If on a wintry night the police will drive, beating and kicking, unarmed protesters down the street, will it let the protesters in and leave the police out? Mikhailivsky Cathedral in Kyiv did it, on the night of December 1st, 2013, if I remember it right, and later let people rest inside and served as a hospital base. A protestant church in Luteranska str. also served as a hospital.
I’m not saying this is behavior expected only of churches.
I am saying that 1) the churches occupy a position outside common law, in people’s eyes (after all, Berkut could force the doors), 2) if you are seeking to outperform something, you should steelman it like there’s no tomorrow, 3) if you think churches just ‘fill a hole’ in bored and scared people’s minds, then yeah, you can go fill it yourself, just don’t expect the protesters survive it.
Edit: 2013, not ’14.
And what level of responsibility would this community take upon itself? If on a wintry night the police will drive, beating and kicking, unarmed protesters down the street, will it let the protesters in and leave the police out? Mikhailivsky Cathedral in Kyiv did it, on the night of December 1st, 2013, if I remember it right, and later let people rest inside and served as a hospital base. A protestant church in Luteranska str. also served as a hospital.
I’m not saying this is behavior expected only of churches.
I am saying that 1) the churches occupy a position outside common law, in people’s eyes (after all, Berkut could force the doors), 2) if you are seeking to outperform something, you should steelman it like there’s no tomorrow, 3) if you think churches just ‘fill a hole’ in bored and scared people’s minds, then yeah, you can go fill it yourself, just don’t expect the protesters survive it. Edit: 2013, not ’14.