“But it’s illegal, so it’s wrong.”
I have never said that I have to think something is wrong for me to be willing to punish it, it simply has to be against the law.
Again, I will say this for what seems like the thousandth time. The law has nothing to do with right and wrong, it has to do with what is and is not allowed. Until you understand this, you will not understand how morality and law are totally separate. All that is required for a law to be a law is power. It doesn’t have to be morally justified or logically justified, it simply has to be enforced. If the government has the power to enforce this law, it can do it.
Whether or not you think punishing jaywalking is moral or logically justifiable is totally irrelevant. Whether you think this law is morally or logically justifiable is irrelevant. The only relevant question is: does the government have the power to enforce this law? I think they do.
“It’s the law, so it must be the best, most just, thing for society to do.”
This is absolutely not what I’m saying. I’m not interested in best or morally just, I’m simply interested in seeing the rules applied as they are written down. The law has nothing to do with moral justice or what’s best for society. It has to do with order. Order requires no moral justification, it requires no logical justification, it simply requires that the rules are enforced regularly as they are written.
“switches his argument to fallaciously justify the governments action”
Again, no I’m not trying to morally justify anything.