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The ordinance states: "All persons in San Francisco must source separate their refuse into recyclables, compostables, and trash, and place each type of refuse i
by eurleif 2y ago
The ordinance states: "All persons in San Francisco must source separate their refuse into recyclables, compostables, and trash, and place each type of refuse in a separate container designated for disposal of that type of refuse. No person may mix recyclables, compostables or trash, or deposit refuse of one type in a collection container designated for another type of refuse, except as otherwise provided in this Chapter." When the law requires you to behave a certain way, and you don't, you're doing something illegal; that's what "illegal" means. It's entirely irrelevant whether or not you get away with it, and your conflation of illegality with (your perception of) enforcement is what's grossly misleading.
- jacobolus 2y agoWhen put side by side with the comment about meth at playgrounds (note: definitely illegal, though again, police in SF are generally fairly unresponsive), it is clear that your reach of a pedantic defense is not how the author intends readers to interpret this passage. The implication is that SF is a dystopian nightmare where some woke enforcement squad is coming to arrest you for putting your banana peels in the garbage while applauding the drug addicts threatening your children. The whole thing is a hyperbolic rhetorical flourish intended to provoke a knee-jerk fear/anger response among an audience previously primed by right-wing media but entirely personally unfamiliar with San Franciso, not a careful discussion of the benefits and harms or even the ideological underpinnings of various local ordinances. Leading with "culture war" nonsense likely to provoke pointless arguments like this one is why this article is a poor fit for HN which people would be better served by skipping.