If these protesters had their award based on their "right" to be able to sleep at night when they chose to move close to an airport, perhaps anyone who has moved close to, say, Sellafield should be able to close it on the basis of their right to have kids with only one head...
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reductio ad absurdum point concerns people who live close to an airport but work night shifts... do they not have the right to a good
day's sleep? Even more difficult for them. Perhaps the ECHR should make a ruling on their rights as well - perhaps the government should do something about all that noise during the daytime?
Finally, I assume that these protesters have
never taken a holiday charter during the hours of darkness? A bit hypocritical if they have.