False premise. Your assertion of who I am is predisposed based on your notion of what is appropriate.
You, like every other person who has attempted to refute my position, has utterly failed to overcome a few very simple principles.
- No government official should have the power to bypass the legislature and proper procedures to remove freedom. No matter if we are discussing masks or red letters or wearing a coat in winter time. My principles are consistent with the tenets that this country was founded on.
- I should not have any of my inherent freedoms removed from me without being proven guilty in a court of law that I have violated someone else's rights. As I do not have COVID, I am not harming anyone else if I don't wear a mask. And you can't prove otherwise. Basic legal principle.
- Allowing executive orders to be utilized in substitution for legislative procedures is a horrendous abuse of the checks and balances in this country. It needs to be stopped before some governor orders mandatory vaccinations, or mandatory gun bans, or mandatory re-education camps. Executive orders are the slippery slope of government.
In addition - your assertion that I am self-centered is merely a coping mechanism that you are using to distract from the fact that I am on solid principled ground. You can't refute my position logically, and so you devolve into name calling. This is a sure fire indicator that I am winning this debate.
I do appreciate that you don't wish me to get COVID, and I wish the same for every other human on the planet including you. But I can't have my wish - many people will get COVID and there is very little we can do about it until we create a vaccine. What I can do is advocate for the preservation of freedom and personally responsibility.
