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It looks like the disagreement between John Denker and John Mallinckroft
has been caused by interchangeable use of the two different concepts: current
and current density.
Current (as a rate of charge transfer through a surface) is not a vector. This can be made crystal clear by considering, say, electrical discharge of a spherical capacitor. We have non-zero charge transfer with no direction to single out.