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So how do you feel about speed limits then? Do you just go ahead and break the speed limit every chance you can get, because it's legally required to follow the

So how do you feel about speed limits then? Do you just go ahead and break the speed limit every chance you can get, because it's legally required to follow them?

fooker 6y ago
Nice strawman.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
  I don’t think it is a strawman. The parent commenter said he wears a mask, knows that it’s the right thing to do, but if there were a mask law he’d deliberately stop wearing it just to prove a point.
  - vorpalhex 6y ago
    If tomorrow you started fining or charging people not wearing a mask, who would it be? Statistically, a mixture of immigrants, minorities and the poor. Not a bunch of well off white soccer moms or gun toting rednecks, but the vulnerable. And who can stand up for themselves the least? Well, it's those same people - people who have the same rights as you and I on paper if not so much in a court system. So yes, I would challenge that, because I am in a position to defend myself and go to court. I have the funds, I own a suit, I can retain a lawyer. That's not true for those most likely to be affected by fines and criminal charges for not wearing a mask.
    - SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
      Right, so I think the analogy holds. If you believed that speeding laws were enforced disproportionately against the vulnerable, you would presumably endanger people speeding so that you could go to court and prove your point.
      - vorpalhex 6y ago
        If you're racing around in a car, you probably aren't the vulnerable.