A question about the legality of personal space

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48. you're trying to assert a private property right to public space.

one of the wonderful things about private property is *exactly* what you describe, the right to be left alone in peace, minding your own business.

being in a public space is very different. it's community space, you do not have a private property interest in it.

you asked a legitimate question, of course someone else has no right to force you out of where you're sitting or standing, even if it's in a public space. but he didn't do that.


note, in this particular subthread, i'm wasn't talking about legal rights, like we were discussing elsewhere. here, i was talking about the wisdom to simply walk away even if there was a legal justification for getting violent.

just because you might have a right to do something doesn't mean it's a good idea to do exercise it. all kinds of bad things can happen once you get violent, even if you're perfectly justified in doing so. not the least of which is that what a judge and jury sees may not line up with what you saw. if you beat the guy to a bloody pulp, you might have a tough time convincing others that he was "in your space".