The “law doesn’t matter” fatalists forget that the people who would be needed to implement a court ruling are the same group being threatened with their pay being withheld. The core of legal fatalism is that few people will risk their own personal best interests to stand up against tyranny, but in this case they’re not standing up for someone else, they’re writing checks to themselves and all their work friends for thousands of dollars. They’re in a better material situation by writing the check, getting fired, and filing a lawsuit than just meekly going along.
This is what concerns me about this whole thing, its like it’s to break morale of all the government workers to either leave or become so desperate to keep their job and pay that some may be willing to do anything in those specific roles they’re targeting.
The “law doesn’t matter” fatalists forget that the people who would be needed to implement a court ruling are the same group being threatened with their pay being withheld. The core of legal fatalism is that few people will risk their own personal best interests to stand up against tyranny, but in this case they’re not standing up for someone else, they’re writing checks to themselves and all their work friends for thousands of dollars. They’re in a better material situation by writing the check, getting fired, and filing a lawsuit than just meekly going along.
This is what concerns me about this whole thing, its like it’s to break morale of all the government workers to either leave or become so desperate to keep their job and pay that some may be willing to do anything in those specific roles they’re targeting.