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Thank you, Marjardi. Of course, I'm open to this reasonable explanation. Makes more sense than what has been going on in my head since it happened. : >

I agree. I've asked the same question. All I can say is that it has been my experience for international travel that the entire cabin is told to close the blinds for the duration of the trip.

Similarly, I read something that was actually being scientifically studied years ago how it's possible that nothing even behind our heads (assuming you are a person with vision) even exists until you hear it or turn around to see it. It's like that image in the movie What The Bleep: Down the Rabbit Hole where the woman (played by Marlee Matin) gets out of bed and messes with her blinds to open them. As she opens them, the vision of the world outside the blinds starts to fall in place in such a way that you could see that the world didn't actually exist outside her window until she opened the blinds to allow the possibility of it. Of course, that's just a movie, but I like the illustration they used to explain a concept that might very well be real.

LOL. Thank you. I believe what I'd said in my post, but that doesn't mean that I don't think I sound crazy saying it. I struggle sometimes when I know how crazy I sound. It's nice that at least one random other person is 'here' for it. : >

Oops. Yeah, you're right. My point is that the concept of inalienable rights was recognized very early on. I think it's still an interesting idea.

I like how in the US Constitution, it is actually written in that we have INALIENABLE rights that we are basically born with because we are human beings. Of course, that doesn't mean that you get everything for free, but it just means that if someone is attempting to cruelly extort you for something, like water, that you absolutely cannot live without, that there could be cause there to fight the ill treatment legally. The fact that these are some of the first words in the US Constitution is something that might be able to be used against at least the current US government if it were to try something like this, but then other countries can look at this, too, because it proves that at least our initial government believed we had such inalienable rights. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this might have set some kind of precedence for this kind of thinking centuries ago. As far as passing out water bottles, I think they were probably legally required to do that, because they are providing a paid service to people that they are otherwise unable to fulfill safely if they don't pass out bottled water or come up with some other fix. You're actively paying for a service that you cannot access and are not otherwise being comped on if they don't do something like pass out bottled water. Our town had one of our water towers go bust due to the town not having it inspected properly and it rusted up. They had other functioning towers, but because of the way our system worked, if one was out, the water coming from the taps was not potable. So they trucked in bottled water but had it in those gigantic tanks outside the city hall for a while until they fixed the tank. It wasn't out of the goodness of their hearts. I could be wrong with all of these things, but this is how I currently see it.

This is true. I live on my own rural property in the US and it's illegal for me to collect my own rainwater for consumption. As the next poster said, how can they enforce it? Well, then you get the curtain twitchers nearby who report on you to the local gubberment, because they somehow feel slighted that you are doing for yourself. These twitchers have been trained overtime especially in the past two years to report on anything that seems to go against gubberment edicts/ mandates. What I find both sad and amusing (amusing, only because I'm exhausted with it so I'd rather laugh than cry) is that I have to keep telling my friends who live in cities that all of those youtubers who are apparently living off their own land in the US countryside that it's fake, because most of what they're doing is pretty much illegal to do through one code or another. At least here where I live, and I live in a mostly rural state that the majority of the country just thinks pees in pots in the backyard anyway. Nope. We got the stupid electric autometer at the curb snuck in on us while everyone was at work one day without any debate at council whatsoever, if that tells you anything about how things operate around here.

The planets? LOL. If you haven't been to (for example) CALIFORNIA and don't know anyone who has ever gone there, you have no actual proof that California even exists. The media and their maps are no proof, of course. When I flew a few times internationally, I was always weirded out how the stewardesses always forced us to close our blinds so we couldn't see out on the ride. What were they trying to hide? I paid good money for those window seats. Why was I not allowed to look out of them during the journey? Edit: for the record, I've been to what was supposedly California, but that's just an example.