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by naikrovek 1232 days ago
there's no fine! all she has to do is stay home and wait to die.

why would she even want to be around other people, when she knows she has an extremely serious and contagious disease?

she is a literal menace to society and that all but voids her individual rights to freedom from fines, punishment, or excessive bail. she had her chance to play according to the rules. she chose not to. now she must pay the penalties. if she infected anyone and they die from it, she must be treated, against her will or not, and then put in prison for an appropriate amount of time.

you can't go around infecting others with tuberculosis and expect to keep your rights, no matter what "excessive" means to you. court opinion is valid and one does not get to say that legal precedent on interpretation of the bill of rights is invalid because you personally disagree with it.

how's that? please think more. not everything is an attack against you.