These details ought to cause the legislature that passed this to be deeply ashamed. But shame isn’t an emotion that progressives feel. They are happy to exploit the guilt and shame that people with a conscience feel and use it to their political advantage. But to them the end justifies the means. And if they have to adopt rules where the incentives are completely unworkable, they aren’t really going to care, so long as the punishment is self executing.
These details ought to cause the legislature that passed this to be deeply ashamed. But shame isn’t an emotion that progressives feel. They are happy to exploit the guilt and shame that people with a conscience feel and use it to their political advantage. But to them the end justifies the means. And if they have to adopt rules where the incentives are completely unworkable, they aren’t really going to care, so long as the punishment is self executing.