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This is apparently a controversial opinion but I don't think the government should be allowed to break the law. And no cheating by writing a law that laws don't apply to you.


So, emergency vehicles should do the speed limit and wait for red lights?


The post you're responding to says that they shouldn't break the law. Emergency vehicles are allowed, by written law, to exceed the speed limit and move through red lights. Here's one, for instance...

https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_820.300


It also says:

> And no cheating by writing a law that laws don't apply to you.


I mean, there's a difference between writing an exemption just so you can do a thing without getting in trouble, and writing an exemption that is so obviously for the benefit and health of society/community writ large. I can't think of a crappier example to have used to have tried to make the point they're making.


The FBI didn’t write the law. And it’s not for the benefit of the FBI, it’s for the purpose of getting scammers off the street. Billions of dollars have been lost of crypto scams.


The parent poster called that sort of exemption “cheating”.



Not all emergency vehicles are the government.


And where did they break the law?


Wash traders are the ones breaking the law.




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